CVE-2014-7273

medium
Published 2014-10-08 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
6.8
VIR risk
6.8

Description

The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmail 4.0.0 through 4.43.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof IMAP servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No vendor mitigations ingested yet for this CVE. The mitigation-content worker queues fetches as references arrive — check back in a few minutes, or see the references list below.

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
getmailgetmail4.4.0
getmailgetmail4.0
getmailgetmail4.0.0_b10
getmailgetmail4.0.1
getmailgetmail4.0.2
getmailgetmail4.0.3
getmailgetmail4.0.4
getmailgetmail4.0.5
getmailgetmail4.0.6
getmailgetmail4.0.7
getmailgetmail4.0.8
getmailgetmail4.0.9
getmailgetmail4.0.10
getmailgetmail4.0.11
getmailgetmail4.0.12
getmailgetmail4.0.13
getmailgetmail4.1
getmailgetmail4.1.1
getmailgetmail4.1.2
getmailgetmail4.1.3
getmailgetmail4.1.4
getmailgetmail4.1.5
getmailgetmail4.2.0
getmailgetmail4.3.0
getmailgetmail4.5.0
getmailgetmail4.6.0
getmailgetmail4.7.0
getmailgetmail4.8.0
getmailgetmail4.9.0
getmailgetmail4.10.0
getmailgetmail4.11.0
getmailgetmail4.12.0
getmailgetmail4.13.0
getmailgetmail4.14.0
getmailgetmail4.15.0
getmailgetmail4.16.0
getmailgetmail4.17.0
getmailgetmail4.18.0
getmailgetmail4.19.0
getmailgetmail4.20.0
getmailgetmail4.21.0
getmailgetmail4.22.0
getmailgetmail4.23.0
getmailgetmail4.24.0
getmailgetmail4.25.0
getmailgetmail4.26.0
getmailgetmail4.27.0
getmailgetmail4.28.0
getmailgetmail4.29.0
getmailgetmail4.30.0
getmailgetmail4.31.0
getmailgetmail4.32.0
getmailgetmail4.33.0
getmailgetmail4.34.0
getmailgetmail4.35.0
getmailgetmail4.36.0
getmailgetmail4.37.0
getmailgetmail4.38.0
getmailgetmail4.39.0
getmailgetmail4.40.0
getmailgetmail4.41.0
getmailgetmail4.42.0

References

CWEs

CWE-310

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