CVE-2005-3402 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The SMTP client in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 BETA, 1.0.7, and possibly other versions, does not notify users when it cannot establish a secure channel with the server, which allows remote attackers to obtain authentication information without detection via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that bypasses TLS authentication or downgrades CRAM-MD5 authentication to plain authentication.

Published: 2005-11-01

Score: 2.6 Low

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.0.5:beta::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:thunderbird:1.0.7:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2005-3401	The SMTP client in Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 BETA, 1.0.7, and possibly other versions, does not notify users when it cannot establish a secure channel with the server, which allows remote attackers to obtain authentication information without detection via a man-in-the-middle (MITM) attack that bypasses TLS authentication or downgrades CRAM-MD5 authentication to plain authentication.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity High

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00142.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113028017608146&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=113034421329653&w=2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15106
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=311657

History

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Mozilla Thunderbird

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-11-01T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T23:10:08.587Z

Reserved: 2005-11-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-3402

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-11-01T12:47:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-3402

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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