CVE-2024-50624

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

Publication date:

28/10/2024

Last modified:

31/05/2025

Description

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.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.90 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Adjacent
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): None
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): Low
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

5.90

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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