Cleartext transmission of credentials in net/smtp
SMTP clients using net/smtp can use the PLAIN authentication scheme on network connections not secured with TLS, exposing passwords to man-in-the-middle SMTP servers.
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-15042US | medium5.9OT elevated | — | ||
An unintended cleartext issue exists in Go before 1.8.4 and 1.9.x before 1.9.1. RFC 4954 requires that, during SMTP, the PLAIN auth scheme must only be used on network connections… | ||||
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