HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2002-0379

Uw Imap vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
19.4%
EPSS pct
97th
Exploited
No known
Buffer overflow in University of Washington imap server (uw-imapd) imap-2001 (imapd 2001.315) and imap-2001a (imapd 2001.315) with legacy RFC 1730 support, and imapd 2000.287 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long BODY request.
Affected vendor
University Of Washington
Affected product
Uw Imap
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2002-06-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 19.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 97% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2002-0379

  • Confirm whether University Of Washington Uw Imap is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2002-0379.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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