Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-2683

RCE

Title: Mutt RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2007-2683

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date May 15, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 3.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-2683: Buffer overflow in Mutt 1.4.2 might allow local users to execute arbitrary code via "&" characters in the GECOS field, which triggers the overflow during alias expansion.

Impacted Vendors

mutt 1

Reference Links

http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2885 http://osvdb.org/34973 http://secunia.com/advisories/25408 http://secunia.com/advisories/25515 http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24192 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018066 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239890 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34441 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1391 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10543 http://dev.mutt.org/trac/ticket/2885 http://osvdb.org/34973 http://secunia.com/advisories/25408 http://secunia.com/advisories/25515 http://secunia.com/advisories/25529 http://secunia.com/advisories/25546 http://secunia.com/advisories/26415 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:113 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0386.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24192 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018066 http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0024/ https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=239890 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34441 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1391 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10543

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity LOW

3.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-2683 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/30093

View Code

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

May 15, 2007 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:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.