CVE-2005-2933

Uw Imap vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

8.5%

EPSS pct

94th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the mail_valid_net_parse_work function in mail.c for Washington's IMAP Server (UW-IMAP) before imap-2004g allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a mailbox name containing a single double-quote (") character without a closing quote, which causes bytes after the double-quote to be copied into a buffer indefinitely.

Affected vendor

University Of Washington

Affected product

Uw Imap

CVSS vector

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

Published

2005-10-13

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 8.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 94% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether University Of Washington Uw Imap is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
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