CVE-2024-50624 (GCVE-0-2024-50624)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-10-27 00:00 – Updated: 2025-05-31 08:03
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE
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