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CVE-2007-1558 Detail

Current Description

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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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070602-01-P.asc CVE, MITRE
http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html CVE, MITRE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305530 CVE, MITRE
http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2007-01.txt CVE, MITRE
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00771742 CVE, MITRE
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=c00774579 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/May/msg00004.html CVE, MITRE
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/balsa-list/2007-July/msg00000.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25353 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25402 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25476 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25496 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25534 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/25559 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25664 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25750 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25798 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25858 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/25894 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/35699 CVE, MITRE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-06.xml CVE, MITRE
http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2007&m=slackware-security.571857 CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=683706 CVE, MITRE
http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/news.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.claws-mail.org/news.php CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1300 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1305 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:105 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:107 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:119 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:131 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mozilla.org/security/announce/2007/mfsa2007-15.html CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_36_mozilla.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/15/1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/18/1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0344.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0353.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0385.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0401.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0402.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1140.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464477/30/0/threaded CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/464569/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/470172/100/200/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471455/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471720/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471842/100/0/threaded CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23257 CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018008 CVE, MITRE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0019/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-469-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-520-1 CVE, MITRE
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-151A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1466 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1467 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1468 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1480 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1939 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1994 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2788 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0082 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1231 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1232 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1424 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9782 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2007-1558
NVD Published Date:
04/16/2007
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE