Vulnerability Report

CVE-2020-16118

Title: GNOME Balsa NULL pointer dereference on PREAUTH response

client crash

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2020-16118.

CWE Category CWE-476
Published Date Jul 29, 2020
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.62%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2020-16118: In GNOME Balsa before 2.6.0, a malicious server operator or man in the middle can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and client crash by sending a PREAUTH response to imap_mbox_connect in libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c.

Impacted Vendors

S
stuart_parmenter 1
G
gnome 1
O
opensuse 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00035.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-08/msg00045.html https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/commit/4e245d758e1c826a01080d40c22ca8706f0339e5 https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/balsa/-/issues/23
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2020-16118 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.