CVE-2021-38370

Publication date 10 August 2021

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.9 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

In Alpine before 2.25, untagged responses from an IMAP server are accepted before STARTTLS.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
alpine 25.04 plucky
Not affected
24.10 oracular
Not affected
24.04 LTS noble
Not affected
23.10 mantic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
23.04 lunar Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.10 kinetic Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
22.04 LTS jammy
Not affected
21.10 impish Ignored end of life
21.04 hirsute Ignored end of life
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 2.22+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.21+dfsg1-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.20+dfsg1-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
alpine

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 5.9 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity High
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact High
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

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