CVE-2014-2567

medium

Published 2014-03-21 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

4.3

Description

The OpenConnectionTask::handleStateHelper function in Imap/Tasks/OpenConnectionTask.cpp in Trojita before 0.4.1 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of cleartext for saving a message into a (1) sent or (2) draft folder via a PREAUTH response that prevents later use of the STARTTLS command.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
trojita_project	trojita	`{"endIncluding":"0.4"}`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.1`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2.9`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2.9.1`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2.9.2`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2.9.3`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.2.9.4`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3.90`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3.91`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3.92`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3.93`
trojita_project	trojita	`0.3.96`

References

CWEs

CWE-200

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.