CVE-2020-14929
HIGHAlpine < 2.23 - Insecure Connection Handling via TLS Downgrade
Title source: llmDescription
Alpine before 2.23 silently proceeds to use an insecure connection after a /tls is sent in certain circumstances involving PREAUTH, which is a less secure behavior than the alternative of closing the connection and letting the user decide what they would like to do.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
http://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/alpine-info/2020-June/008989.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/06/msg00025.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/ZJLY6JDVGDNAJZ3UQDWYWSDBWOAOXMNX/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YFXQGKZZMP3VSTLZVO5Z7Z6USYIW37A6/
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0182
EPSS Percentile
76.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Details
Status
published
Products (4)
alpine_project/alpine
< 2.23
debian/debian_linux
8.0
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
Published
Jun 19, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026