Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-0078

RCE

Title: Mutt index menu buffer overflow DoS/RCE

RCE, DoS, Buffer Overflow

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-0078.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Mar 03, 2004

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-0078: Buffer overflow in the index menu code (menu_pad_string of menu.c) for Mutt 1.4.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain mail messages.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2004-013.0.txt http://bugs.debian.org/126336 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107651677817933&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107696262905039&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107884956930903&w=2 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:010 http://www.osvdb.org/3918 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-050.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9641 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.405053 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15134 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A811 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A838 ftp://ftp.caldera.com/pub/security/OpenLinux/CSSA-2004-013.0.txt http://bugs.debian.org/126336 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107651677817933&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107696262905039&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=107884956930903&w=2 http://www.mandrakesoft.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2004:010 http://www.osvdb.org/3918 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-050.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-051.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9641 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2004&m=slackware-security.405053 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/15134 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A811 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A838

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-2004-0078 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 03, 2004 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.