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CVE-2005-0198
A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 5.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 7.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 6 days later
· 6 days later
Published
- 20 years later
· 20 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.1% · top 7.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11306 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-68QSL5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2005:128 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-200502-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:026 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRAKEx_transferred
- 14097 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1013037 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- VU#702777 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 14057 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 12391 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2005-0199 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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