CVE-2005-2642

Mutt vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.5%

EPSS pct

90th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the mutt_decode_xbit function in Handler.c for Mutt 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly due to interactions with libiconv or gettext.

Affected vendor

Mutt

Affected product

Mutt

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-08-23

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 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

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