CVE Vulnerability

CVE-2020-14929

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.

5 /10

CVSS v2.0 :

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 10 / Impact : 2.9

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope

7.5 /10

CVSS v3.0 : HIGH

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact NONE

Scope UNCHANGED

References
Link Resource
http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2020-June/008989.html Patch Third Party Advisory
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJLY6JDVGDNAJZ3UQDWYWSDBWOAOXMNX/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFXQGKZZMP3VSTLZVO5Z7Z6USYIW37A6/ Mailing List Third Party Advisory
Configurations

Configuration 1

cpe:2.3:a:alpine_project:alpine:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Information

Published : 2020-06-19 07:15

Updated : 2023-01-28 02:03

NVD link : CVE-2020-14929

Mitre link : CVE-2020-14929

Products Affected
No products.
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other