CVE-2020-15047
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in...
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- None
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- None
- Availability
- None
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
- Record
CVE-2020-15047- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - CVSS 2.0
- 4.3 Medium
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N - Weakness
- CWE-295
- Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
- Record
CVE-2020-15047- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2020-7175 No score
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
- Record
EUVD-2020-7175- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-vq22-w99f-wr8j No score
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in...
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
- Record
GHSA-vq22-w99f-wr8j- Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVUBUNTU-CVE-2020-15047
MSA/SMTP.cpp in Trojita before 0.8 ignores certificate-verification errors, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SMTP servers.
- Record
UBUNTU-CVE-2020-15047- CVSS 3.1
- 5.9 Medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N - Updated
- 2026-11-02
OSVMGASA-2021-0082 No score
Updated trojita packages fix security vulnerability
Damian Poddebniak discovered a TLS verification failure in Trojitá. When sending e-mails over SMTP, all TLS errors were ignored (CVE-2020-15047).
- Record
MGASA-2021-0082- Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
Affected packages
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD, OSV |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2020-15047 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 5.9) in Trojita Project Trojita, published June 25, 2020. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.80%, the 56th percentile. Fixed in trojita 0.7-6.git20200625.1.mga7.