The APOP protocol allows remote attackers to guess the first 3 characters of a password via man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks that use crafted message IDs and MD5 collisions. NOTE: this design-level issue potentially affects all products that use APOP, including (1) Thunderbird 1.x before 1.5.0.12 and 2.x before 2.0.0.4, (2) Evolution, (3) mutt, (4) fetchmail before 6.3.8, (5) SeaMonkey 1.0.x before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.2, (6) Balsa 2.3.16 and earlier, (7) Mailfilter before 0.8.2, and possibly other products.
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2007-04-16T22:00:00
Updated: 2018-10-16T14:57:01
Reserved: 2007-03-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2007-1558
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NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2007-04-16T22:19:00.000
Modified: 2018-10-16T16:39:13.097
Link: CVE-2007-1558
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