Vulnerability Report

CVE-2002-0001

RCE

Title: mutt RFC822 address parser buffer overflow

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2002-0001.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Feb 27, 2002

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2002-0001: Vulnerability in RFC822 address parser in mutt before 1.2.5.1 and mutt 1.3.x before 1.3.25 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an improperly terminated comment or phrase in the address list.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-002.0.txt ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:04.mutt.asc http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000449 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100994648918287&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3778 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-096 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7759.php http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_001_mutt_txt.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-003.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3774 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2002-002.0.txt ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CERT/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-02:04.mutt.asc http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000449 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=100994648918287&w=2 http://online.securityfocus.com/advisories/3778 http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-096 http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7759.php http://www.mutt.org/announce/mutt-1.2.5.1-1.3.25.html http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_001_mutt_txt.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-003.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3774

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2002-0001 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

February 27, 2002 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.