{"id":"CVE-2025-61962","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2025-61962","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T00:25:36.020Z","title":"In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.","description":"In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.","published":"2025-10-04T03:15:38.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-19T16:10:00.000Z","status":"Deferred","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-142"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00409,"percentile":0.34873,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.41%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/commit/4c3cebfa4e659fb778ca2cae0ccb3f69201609a8","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-SA-2025-01.txt","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/03/2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/10/04/3","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-61962","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}