CVE-2020-12398
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-07-09 14:45
Modified
2024-08-04 11:56
Severity ?
Summary
If Thunderbird is configured to use STARTTLS for an IMAP server, and the server sends a PREAUTH response, then Thunderbird will continue with an unencrypted connection, causing email data to be sent without protection. This vulnerability affects Thunderbird < 68.9.0.
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