CVE-2025-61962 (GCVE-0-2025-61962)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-10-04 00:00 – Updated: 2025-11-04 21:14
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Summary
In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-142 - Improper Neutralization of Value Delimiters
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Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
fetchmail fetchmail Affected: 5.9.9 , < 6.5.6 (semver)
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