CVE-2005-0198

Uw Imap vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

5.1%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.

Affected vendor

University Of Washington

Affected product

Uw Imap

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-05-02

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 5.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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