CVE-2017-15042

EPSS 0.18%

Cleartext transmission of credentials in net/smtp

Published: 1/7/2022Modified: 5/20/2024

Description

SMTP clients using net/smtp can use the PLAIN authentication scheme on network connections not secured with TLS, exposing passwords to man-in-the-middle SMTP servers.

Affected packages (1)

  • Go/stdlib>= 1.1.0-0, < 1.8.4, >= 1.9.0-0, < 1.9.1

References (4)