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DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1558

DEBIAN-CVE-2007-1558 PUBLISHED

The 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.

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11mailfilter0, 0, 0
Debian:12fetchmail0, 0, 0
Debian:12mailfilter0, 0, 0
Debian:11balsa0, 0, 0
Debian:12balsa0, 0, 0
Debian:11mutt0, 0, 0
Debian:14fetchmail0, 0, 0
Debian:14balsa0, 0, 0
Debian:13mailfilter0, 0, 0
Debian:14mutt0, 0, 0
Debian:13fetchmail0, 0, 0
Debian:11fetchmail0, 0, 0
Debian:13balsa0, 0, 0
Debian:14mailfilter0, 0, 0
Debian:11claws-mail0, 0, 0
Debian:13mutt0, 0, 0
Debian:14claws-mail0, 0, 0
Debian:13claws-mail0, 0, 0
Debian:12mutt0, 0, 0
Debian:12claws-mail0, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Apr 16, 2007 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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