Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4080

Title: Horde IMP UTF16 null XSS in attachments

XSS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-4080

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 08, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Available
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.40%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4080: Horde IMP 4.0.4 and earlier does not sanitize strings containing UTF16 null characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via UTF16 encoded attachments and strings that will be executed when viewed using Internet Explorer, which ignores the characters.

Impacted Vendors

I
imp 1
H
horde 1

Reference Links

http://secunia.com/advisories/17910 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/232 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015315 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418734/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15730/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2773 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23465 http://secunia.com/advisories/17910 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/232 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015315 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418734/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15730/ http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2773 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23465
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4080 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/26741
View Code
MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.