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CVE-2001-0996

CVE information

Published

22 years ago

Last Modified

6 years ago

CVSSv2.0 Severity

Medium

Impact Analysis

Description

POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly..

CVSSv2.0 Score

Severity
Medium
Base Score
6.4/10
Exploit Score
10/10
Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication Required
None
Impact Score
4.9/10
Confidentiality Impact
None
Availability Impact
Partial
Integrity Impact
Partial

Products Affected

CPE Affected Vulnerable Excluding Edit
cpe:2.3:a:pop3lite:pop3lite:0.2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
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cpe:2.3:a:pop3lite:pop3lite:0.2.3b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  Yes
- -