Thomas Henlich wrote:

>Sequence of attack
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>- S sends EHLO response with STARTTLS advertisement.
>- A4 discards S's STARTTLS advertisement.
>- PLAIN authentication takes place.
>- A4 can read cleartext password.
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>RESOLUTION
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>For A1-A3 no resolution is known. For A4, set user preference to
>enforce TLS.
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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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Cheers

Jason Haar
Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd.
Phone: +64 3 9635 377 Fax: +64 3 9635 417
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