CVE-2020-16118: Gnome Balsa

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In GNOME Balsa before 2.6.0, a malicious server operator or man in the middle can trigger a NULL pointer dereference and client crash by sending a PREAUTH response to imap_mbox_connect in libbalsa/imap/imap-handle.c.

Affected products

• Gnome Balsa: before 2.6.0 (fixed in 2.6.0)
• Opensuse Backports Sle: version 15.0 only
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2020-07-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.