CVE-2006-6940

Owa vulnerability

CVSS

10.0

EPSS

4.6%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the ParseHeader function in clsOWA.cls in POP3/SMTP to OWA (pop2owa) 1.1.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long header in an e-mail message.

Affected vendor

Owa

Affected product

Owa

CVSS vector

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

Published

2007-01-17

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to complete impact to confidentiality, complete impact to integrity, complete impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.6% 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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