PT-2021-22085 · Alpine+3 · Alpine+3

John Helmert Iii · Published 2021-08-10 · Updated 2025-03-20 · CVE-2021-38370

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Alpine versions prior to 2.25

Description The issue concerns the acceptance of untagged responses from an IMAP server before STARTTLS. This indicates a potential security risk related to the handling of server responses during the initial connection setup.

Recommendations For versions prior to 2.25, update to version 2.25 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

Command Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-77

Related Identifiers

CVE-2021-38370

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:12314-1

USN-7360-1

Affected Products

Alpine

Debian

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

References · 16

• 🔥 https://nostarttls.secvuln.info · Exploit
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-38370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7360-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7360-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14929 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-38370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202301-07 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-38370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-46853 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2021-38370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-38370 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-38370 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-38370 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.gentoo.org/807613#c4 · Note
• https://alpine.x10host.com · Note