Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0140

RCE

Title: Mutt/Balsa IMAP server crafted folder buffer overflow

RCE/Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0140.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 24, 2003

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.18%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0140: Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.0 and possibly earlier versions, 1.5.x up to 1.5.3, and other programs that use Mutt code such as Balsa before 2.0.10, allows a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted folder.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000626 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000630 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104817995421439&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104818814931378&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104852190605988&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105171507629573&w=2 http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=310&idxseccion=10 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-268 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-19.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:041 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_020_mutt.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-109.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/315679 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7120 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11583 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A434 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000626 http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000630 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104817995421439&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104818814931378&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=104852190605988&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=105171507629573&w=2 http://www.coresecurity.com/common/showdoc.php?idx=310&idxseccion=10 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-268 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200303-19.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2003:041 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2003_020_mutt.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2003-109.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/315679 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7120 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/11583 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A2 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A434

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-2003-0140 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.

March 24, 2003 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.