Vulnerability Report

CVE-2007-2958

RCE

Title: Sylpheed RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2007-2958.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Aug 27, 2007

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 6.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.52%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2007-2958: Format string vulnerability in the inc_put_error function in src/inc.c in Sylpheed 2.4.4, and Sylpheed-Claws (Claws Mail) 1.9.100 and 2.10.0, allows remote POP3 servers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in crafted replies.

Impacted Vendors

sylpheed 1

sylpheed-claws 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190104 http://osvdb.org/40184 http://secunia.com/advisories/26550 http://secunia.com/advisories/26610 http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 http://secunia.com/advisories/27379 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-70/advisory/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25430 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2971 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254121 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36238 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00077.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=190104 http://osvdb.org/40184 http://secunia.com/advisories/26550 http://secunia.com/advisories/26610 http://secunia.com/advisories/27229 http://secunia.com/advisories/27379 http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2007-70/advisory/ http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200710-29.xml http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_20_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25430 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2971 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=254121 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/36238 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00077.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2007-2958 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 27, 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:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.