CVE-2005-2923

Imail Server vulnerability

CVSS

4.0

EPSS

10.8%

EPSS pct

95th

Exploited

No known

The IMAP server in IMail Server 8.20 in Ipswitch Collaboration Suite (ICS) before 2.02 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument to the LIST command, which causes IMail Server to reference invalid memory.

Affected vendor

Ipswitch

Affected product

Imail Server

CVSS vector

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

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-20 — Improper Input Validation

Published

2005-12-07

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 10.8% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 95% of all scored CVEs.

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