Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-2933

RCE

Title: Buffer overflow in UW-IMAP mailbox parsing (unclosed quote)

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-2933.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 13, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

35.08%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-2933: Buffer overflow in the mail_valid_net_parse_work function in mail.c for Washington's IMAP Server (UW-IMAP) before imap-2004g allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a mailbox name containing a single double-quote (") character without a closing quote, which causes bytes after the double-quote to be copied into a buffer indefinitely.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 1

Reference Links

ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051201-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0081.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17062/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17148 http://secunia.com/advisories/17152 http://secunia.com/advisories/17215 http://secunia.com/advisories/17276 http://secunia.com/advisories/17336 http://secunia.com/advisories/17483 http://secunia.com/advisories/17928 http://secunia.com/advisories/17930 http://secunia.com/advisories/17950 http://secunia.com/advisories/18554 http://secunia.com/advisories/19832 http://secunia.com/advisories/20210 http://secunia.com/advisories/20222 http://secunia.com/advisories/20951 http://secunia.com/advisories/21252 http://secunia.com/advisories/21564 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/47 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015000 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.500161 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-129.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-160.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-861 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-10.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=313&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/933601 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:189 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:194 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-848.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-850.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0501.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430296/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430303/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15009 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2685 http://www.washington.edu/imap/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22518 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9858 ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20051201-01-U ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060501-01-U.asc http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2005-10/0081.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0276.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0549.html http://secunia.com/advisories/17062/ http://secunia.com/advisories/17148 http://secunia.com/advisories/17152 http://secunia.com/advisories/17215 http://secunia.com/advisories/17276 http://secunia.com/advisories/17336 http://secunia.com/advisories/17483 http://secunia.com/advisories/17928 http://secunia.com/advisories/17930 http://secunia.com/advisories/17950 http://secunia.com/advisories/18554 http://secunia.com/advisories/19832 http://secunia.com/advisories/20210 http://secunia.com/advisories/20222 http://secunia.com/advisories/20951 http://secunia.com/advisories/21252 http://secunia.com/advisories/21564 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/47 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015000 http://slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2005&m=slackware-security.500161 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-129.htm http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-160.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-861 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200510-10.xml http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=313&type=vulnerabilities&flashstatus=true http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/933601 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:189 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:194 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_23_sr.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-848.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-850.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0501.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430296/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/430303/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15009 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2685 http://www.washington.edu/imap/ https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22518 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9858

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-2005-2933 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.

October 13, 2005 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.