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CVE-2001-0996
CVE information
Published
Last Modified
CVSSv2.0 Severity
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
|
- | - | |
cpe:2.3:a:pop3lite:pop3lite:0.2.3b:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
Yes
|
- | - |