DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0772
- Source
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-0772
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0772.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2016-0772
- Upstream
- Published
- 2016-09-02T14:59:00Z
- Modified
- 2025-09-25T22:40:35Z
- Severity
-
- 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
The smtplib library in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 does not return an error when StartTLS fails, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the TLS protections by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block the StartTLS command, aka a "StartTLS stripping attack."
- References
Affected packages
Debian:11 / python2.7
Package
- Name
- python2.7
- Purl
- pkg:deb/debian/python2.7?arch=source