THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2006-3242
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2006-3242

Mutt vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
5.9%
EPSS pct
92th
Exploited
No known
Stack-based buffer overflow in the browse_get_namespace function in imap/browse.c of Mutt 1.4.2.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or execute arbitrary code via long namespaces received from the IMAP server.
Affected vendor
Mutt
Affected product
Mutt
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Published
2006-06-27

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 5.9% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 92% of all scored CVEs.

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