CVE-2001-1378: Fetchmail

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

fetchmailconf in fetchmail before 5.7.4 allows local users to overwrite files of other users via a symlink attack on temporary files.

Affected products

• Fetchmail Fetchmail: up to and including 5.7.2; version 4.5.1 only; version 4.5.2 only; version 4.5.3 only; version 4.5.4 only; version 4.5.5 only; …

Published 2001-09-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.