Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2642

RCE

Title: Mutt RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2642.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Aug 23, 2005
Modified Date Apr 03, 2025
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
9.94%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2642: Buffer overflow in the mutt_decode_xbit function in Handler.c for Mutt 1.5.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code, possibly due to interactions with libiconv or gettext.

Impacted Vendors

M
mutt 1

Reference Links

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408493 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408501 http://secunia.com/advisories/16485 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014729 http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14596 http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.mutt.devel/8379 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408493 http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/408501 http://secunia.com/advisories/16485 http://securitytracker.com/id?1014729 http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0594.html http://www.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Full-Disclosure/2005-08/0600.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14596
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-2005-2642 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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.