CVE-2025-61962
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BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-10-04
Last updated on: 2025-11-04
Assigner: MITRE
Description
Description
In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| fetchmail | fetchmail | 7.0.0 |
| fetchmail | fetchmail | 6.5.5 |
| fetchmail | fetchmail | 6.5.6 |
| fetchmail | fetchmail | 5.9.9 |
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Exploitability
CWE
KEV
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-142 | The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could be interpreted as value delimiters when they are sent to a downstream component. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability occurs in fetchmail versions before 6.5.6, where the SMTP client can crash during authentication if it receives a 334 status code in a malformed context.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The impact of this vulnerability is that the SMTP client may crash, causing a denial of service. It does not affect confidentiality or integrity but can disrupt availability.
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