Description

ispdbservice.cpp in KDE Kmail before 6.2.0 allows man-in-the-middle attackers to trigger use of an attacker-controlled mail server because cleartext HTTP is used for a URL such as http://autoconfig.example.com or http://example.com/.well-known/autoconfig for retrieving the configuration. This is related to kmail-account-wizard.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-50624

CVSS Base Severity: MEDIUM

CVSS Base Score: 5.9

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.02% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 2.63% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-09 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: total

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50624
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487882
https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail/-/tags
https://invent.kde.org/pim/kmail-account-wizard/-/commit/9784f5ab41c3aff435d4a88afb25585180a62ee4

Timeline