Kontact is vanuable by NO STARTTLS

Sandro Knauß sknauss at kde.org
Fri Sep 10 20:28:26 BST 2021


Hey,

the security team of nostarttls [1] have found two vulnerabilities within 
Kontact/Kmail:
#423423 - STARTTLS is ignored when "Server requires authentication" not 
checked in UI
#423424 - Kmail "forces" the user to accept invalid TLS certificates

Regards,

hefee

[1] https://nostarttls.secvuln.info/
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