CVE-2014-7273: Getmail

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The IMAP-over-SSL implementation in getmail 4.0.0 through 4.43.0 does not verify X.509 certificates from SSL servers, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof IMAP servers and obtain sensitive information via a crafted certificate.

Affected products

• Getmail Getmail: version 4.0 only; version 4.0.0_b10 only; version 4.0.1 only; version 4.0.2 only; version 4.0.3 only; version 4.0.4 only; …

Published 2014-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.