FKIE_CVE-2024-50624

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2024-10-28 00:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 08:04
Severity
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487882
cve@mitre.orghttps://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail-account-wizard/-/commit/9784f5ab41c3aff435d4a88afb25585180a62ee4
cve@mitre.orghttps://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail/-/tags
cve@mitre.orghttps://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00048.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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