Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-5005

RCE

Title: University Of Washington Imap Toolkit RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-5005.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Nov 10, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 10.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-5005: Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.

Impacted Vendors

university_of_washington 2

Reference Links

http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4 http://panda.com/imap/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32483 http://secunia.com/advisories/32512 http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 http://secunia.com/advisories/33996 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042 http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10485 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002267.html http://mailman2.u.washington.edu/pipermail/imap-uw/2008-October/002268.html http://marc.info/?l=full-disclosure&m=122572590212610&w=4 http://panda.com/imap/ http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0275.html http://secunia.com/advisories/32483 http://secunia.com/advisories/32512 http://secunia.com/advisories/33142 http://secunia.com/advisories/33996 http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4570 http://securitytracker.com/id?1021131 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1685 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:146 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/4 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/11/03/5 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/498002/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32072 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3042 http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/46281 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10485 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00058.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-November/msg00082.html

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-5005 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.

November 10, 2008 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:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.