THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2007-5740
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2007-5740

Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy vulnerability

CVSS
7.5
EPSS
12.4%
EPSS pct
96th
Exploited
No known
The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an IMAP tag with a null byte followed by a format string specifier, which is not counted by the mechanism.
Affected vendor
Vergenet
Affected product
Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-134 — Uncontrolled Format String
Published
2007-10-31

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 12.4% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2007-5740

  • Confirm whether Vergenet Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-5740.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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