CVE-2024-50624 Affecting kmail-account-wizard package, versions <4:22.12.3-1+deb12u1
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- published29 Oct 2024
- disclosed28 Oct 2024
Introduced: 28 Oct 2024
CVE-2024-50624 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Debian:12 kmail-account-wizard to version 4:22.12.3-1+deb12u1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kmail-account-wizard package and not the kmail-account-wizard package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:12 relevant fixed versions and status.
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
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-50624
- https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487882
- https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail-account-wizard/-/commit/9784f5ab41c3aff435d4a88afb25585180a62ee4
- https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail/-/tags
- https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00048.html