CVE-2020-15685 (GCVE-0-2020-15685)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-12-22 00:00
Modified
2025-04-16 14:40
Severity ?
8.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • IMAP Response Injection when using STARTTLS
Summary
During the plaintext phase of the STARTTLS connection setup, protocol commands could have been injected and evaluated within the encrypted session. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 78.7.
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Mozilla Thunderbird Version: unspecified   < 78.7
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