CVE-2019-16791 (GCVE-0-2019-16791)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-01-22 01:40
Modified
2024-08-05 01:24
Severity ?
6.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-757 - Selection of Less-Secure Algorithm During Negotiation ('Algorithm Downgrade')
Summary
In postfix-mta-sts-resolver before 0.5.1, All users can receive incorrect response from daemon under rare conditions, rendering downgrade of effective STS policy.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Snawoot postfix-mta-sts-resolver Version: < 0.5.1
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