vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2021-38373: kmail: STARTTLS is ignored when "Server requires authentication" not checked in UI

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 10, 2021
Added
Jul 9, 2025
Modified
Jul 9, 2025

Description

In KDE KMail 19.12.3 (aka 5.13.3), the SMTP STARTTLS option is not honored (and cleartext messages are sent) unless "Server requires authentication" is checked.

Solution

no-fix-redhat-rpm-package
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