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CVE-2020-15953

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2020-15953 describes a STARTTLS buffering vulnerability in LibEtPan versions through 1.9.4, impacting products like MailCore 2. This flaw allows a man-in-the-middle attacker to inject malicious data into the TLS context during the "begin TLS" response for IMAP, SMTP, and POP3 protocols. With a CVSS score of 7.4 (High), this vulnerability has a network attack vector and high attack complexity, potentially leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts without requiring user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libetpan_project:libetpan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 0.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:libmailcore:mailcore2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
31CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
32CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
9.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.4HIGH

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.2
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
82.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0241 is in the 39th percentile among its peer group of 8,918 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00060.html
Broken Link
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-09/msg00075.html
Broken Link
github.com / dinhvh/libetpan/issues/386
ExploitPatchThird Party Advisory
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2020/08/msg00026.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M65FVH5XPS23NLHFN3ABEGBSCHZAISXN
lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/QFBWNA5REI5ZGW2DAOEAVHM23MOU6O5J
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202007-55
Third Party Advisory