CVE-2005-1505

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: May 11, 2005
Updated: Aug 7, 2024
Reserved: May 11, 2005

Description

The new account wizard in Mail.app 2.0 in Mac OS 10.4, when configuring an IMAP mail account and checking the credentials, does not prompt the user to use SSL until after the password has already been sent, which causes the password to be sent in plaintext.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

mailapp-account-wizard-plaintext-password(20670)vdb-entry
20050504 Mac OS 10.4: new-account-wizzard in Mail 2.0 sends clear-text passwordsmailing-list

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