Name: CVE-2025-61962: Improper Neutralization of Value Delimiters
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2025-10-04T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2025-61962, CWE-142, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.0008

In fetchmail before 6.5.6, the SMTP client can crash when authenticating upon receiving a 334 status code in a malformed context.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade fetchmail	Dec 5, 2025	Oct 4, 2025
Amazon_linux_2023	—	Upgrade fetchmailUpgrade fetchmail-debuginfoUpgrade fetchmail-debugsource	Dec 9, 2025	Oct 4, 2025
Freebsd	—	Upgrade fetchmail	Dec 10, 2025	Oct 3, 2025
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 17, 2026	Oct 4, 2025
Suse	—	Upgrade fetchmailconfUpgrade fetchmail	Dec 5, 2025	Oct 28, 2025
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade fetchmail	Oct 24, 2025	Oct 4, 2025

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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