CVE-2007-1558

NameCVE-2007-1558
DescriptionThe APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
ReferencesDSA-1300-1, DSA-1305-1, DTSA-46-1, DTSA-47-1

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
balsa (PTS)jessie2.4.12-1fixed
stretch2.4.12-3fixed
buster2.5.6-2+deb10u1fixed
bullseye2.6.1-1fixed
sid, bookworm2.6.4-2fixed
claws-mail (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)3.11.1-3+deb8u1fixed
stretch3.14.1-3fixed
buster3.17.3-2fixed
bullseye3.17.8-1fixed
bookworm4.1.1-2fixed
sid, trixie4.3.0-2fixed
fetchmail (PTS)jessie6.3.26-1fixed
stretch6.3.26-3fixed
buster6.4.0~beta4-3+deb10u1fixed
bullseye6.4.16-4+deb11u1fixed
bookworm6.4.37-1fixed
sid, trixie6.4.39-1fixed
icedove (PTS)jessie1:52.3.0-4~deb8u2fixed
mailfilter (PTS)jessie0.8.3-1fixed
stretch0.8.6-2fixed
buster0.8.6-3fixed
bullseye0.8.7-1fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm0.8.9-1fixed
mutt (PTS)jessie, jessie (lts)1.5.23-3+deb8u7fixed
stretch (security)1.7.2-1+deb9u6fixed
stretch (lts), stretch1.7.2-1+deb9u7fixed
buster (security), buster, buster (lts)1.10.1-2.1+deb10u7fixed
bullseye (security), bullseye2.0.5-4.1+deb11u3fixed
bookworm2.2.12-0.1~deb12u1fixed
bookworm (security)2.2.9-1+deb12u1fixed
sid, trixie2.2.13-1fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
balsasource(unstable)2.3.17-1unimportant
claws-mailsource(unstable)2.9.1-1unimportant
fetchmailsourceetch6.3.6-1etch3
fetchmailsource(unstable)6.3.8-1unimportant
iceapesourceetch1.0.9-0etch1DSA-1300-1
iceapesourcelenny1.0.10~pre070720-0etch1+lenny1DTSA-47-1
iceapesource(unstable)1.1.2-1
icedovesourceetch1.5.0.12.dfsg1-0etch1DSA-1305-1
icedovesourcelenny1.5.0.12.dfsg1-0etch1+lenny1DTSA-46-1
icedovesource(unstable)2.0.0.4-1
mailfiltersource(unstable)0.8.2-1unimportant
muttsource(unstable)1.5.18-6unimportant

Notes

Affects various clients, but no practical security implications
MFSA2007-15
i couldn't pinpoint exact mutt fixed version, but lenny's version has the
patch and etch's version does not (http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2846)

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