Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2016-0772
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.5
EPSS
15.03%
Original Filing — NVD Description
The smtplib library in CPython (aka Python) before 2.7.12, 3.x before 3.4.5, and 3.5.x before 3.5.2 does not return an error when StartTLS fails, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to bypass the TLS protections by leveraging a network position between the client and the registry to block the StartTLS command, aka a "StartTLS stripping attack."