CVE-2005-1505

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

The new account wizard in Mail.app 2.0 in Mac OS 10.4, when configuring an IMAP mail account and checking the credentials, does not prompt the user to use SSL until after the password has already been sent, which causes the password to be sent in plaintext.

The new account wizard in Mail.app 2.0 in Mac OS 10.4, when configuring an IMAP mail account and checking the credentials, does not prompt the user to use SSL until after the password has already been sent, which causes the password to be sent in plaintext.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-05-11 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-11 01:32:00

Affected Software

Apple Mail 2.0

2.0

References

20050504 Mac OS 10.4: new-account-wizzard in Mail 2.0 sends clear-text passwords

mailapp-account-wizard-plaintext-password(20670)

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