Vulnerability Report

CVE-2003-0167

RCE

Title: Mutt/Balsa off-by-one buffer overflows RCE/DoS

RCE/Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2003-0167.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Apr 02, 2003

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.93%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2003-0167: Multiple off-by-one buffer overflows in the IMAP capability for Mutt 1.3.28 and earlier, and Balsa 1.2.4 and earlier, allow a remote malicious IMAP server to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a specially crafted mail folder, a different vulnerability than CVE-2003-0140.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-274 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-300 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7229 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-274 http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-300 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/7229

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-2003-0167 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.

April 02, 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.