CVE-2024-50624

Published: Oct 28, 2024Modified: May 31, 2025

5.9

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Exploitability: 1.6 / Impact: 4.2

Source: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)

Description

ispdbservice.cpp in KDE Kmail before 6.2.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of an attacker-controlled mail server because cleartext HTTP is used for a URL such as http://autoconfig.example.com or http://example.com/.well-known/autoconfig for retrieving the configuration. This is related to kmail-account-wizard.

Related CWEs

CWE-319

Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

The product transmits sensitive or security-critical data in cleartext in a communication channel that can be sniffed by unauthorized actors.

References (5)

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487882

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail-account-wizard/-/commit/9784f5ab41c3aff435d4a88afb25585180a62ee4

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail/-/tags

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00048.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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