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Re: Mozilla Thunderbird SMTP down-negotiation weakness

Subject: Re: Mozilla Thunderbird SMTP down-negotiation weakness
Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 22:35:27 +1300
Thomas Henlich wrote:

Sequence of attack

- S sends EHLO response with STARTTLS advertisement.
- A4 discards S's STARTTLS advertisement.
- PLAIN authentication takes place.
- A4 can read cleartext password.

RESOLUTION

For A1-A3 no resolution is known. For A4, set user preference to
enforce TLS.



Comment about A4.

Thunderbird explicitly allows you "TLS, if available" - which appears to be what you refer to. However, there is a "TLS" - which means only do TLS - and alert if the TLS certificate presented doesn't match a known one (which would happen in a MITM).

Are you referring to a bug in their "TLS" mode - or implying that "TLS, if available" is somehow not... what it says it is...???

Doesn't sound like a hole to me.

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