CVE-2020-14929

Description

Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.

References

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJLY6JDVGDNAJZ3UQDWYWSDBWOAOXMNX/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFXQGKZZMP3VSTLZVO5Z7Z6USYIW37A6/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html

http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2020-June/008989.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3