CVE-2001-0996

Published Sep 2, 2001

Last updated 7 years ago

Overview

Description: POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.
Source: cve@mitre.org
NVD status: Modified

Hype score: Not currently trending

Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Type: Primary
Base score: 6.4
Impact score: 4.9
Exploitability score: 10
Vector string: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov: NVD-CWE-Other

Configurations

[
  {
    "nodes": [
      {
        "negate": false,
        "cpeMatch": [
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pop3lite:pop3lite:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "5ED94BF3-1979-41F7-BEC0-736FD3D2F889"
          },
          {
            "criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:pop3lite:pop3lite:0.2.3b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "vulnerable": true,
            "matchCriteriaId": "09123A30-F835-488C-ACC7-4447B61C0028"
          }
        ],
        "operator": "OR"
      }
    ]
  }
]

Overview

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Risk scores

CVSS 2.0

Weaknesses

Configurations

References