CVE-2025-61962 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in fetchmail versions prior to 6.5.6, where the SMTP client can crash when encountering a malformed 334 status code during authentication. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) has a high impact on availability, requiring high attack complexity but no user interaction. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 5.9.9, < 6.5.6CPE match | cpe:2.3:a:fetchmail:fetchmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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