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CVE-2020-16094

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2020-07-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-674

Description

In imap_scan_tree_recursive in Claws Mail through 3.17.6, a malicious IMAP server can trigger stack consumption because of unlimited recursion into subdirectories during a rebuild of the folder tree.

Affected products

• Claws-Mail: through 3.17.6
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 31, 32, 33

References

• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CRKHUOVTJBHT53J4CYU53PXYYQKSGEA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUBLHUG2UCXVABAGN5FVTD3AB3YKE5NN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YNJIXYDMSXYDII4ERMQ4EEKZX64U3QR4/
• https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4313
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/3CRKHUOVTJBHT53J4CYU53PXYYQKSGEA/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/JUBLHUG2UCXVABAGN5FVTD3AB3YKE5NN/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/YNJIXYDMSXYDII4ERMQ4EEKZX64U3QR4/
• https://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4313

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