Use of Less Trusted Source Affecting offlineimap package, versions [,8.0.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.19% (9th percentile)

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-OFFLINEIMAP-17675646
  • published29 Jun 2026
  • disclosed8 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Jun 2026

NewCVE-2020-37248  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-348  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade offlineimap to version 8.0.3 or higher.

Overview

offlineimap is an IMAP synchronization tool

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Use of Less Trusted Source due to trusting the server's STARTTLS capability before authentication. An attacker can intercept and manipulate the connection by performing a man-in-the-middle attack, potentially extracting account credentials in cleartext.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1