CVE-2005-3182
Buffer overflow in the HTTP management interface for GFI MailSecurity 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 4.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Buffer overflow in the HTTP management interface for GFI MailSecurity 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long headers such as (1) Host and (2) Accept in HTTP requests. NOTE: the vendor suggests that this issues is "in an underlying Microsoft technology" which, if true, could mean that the overflow affects other products as well.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 8 days later
· 8 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 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)
- 4.0% · top 9.4% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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
8
- 1015046 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 15081 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 74 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20051012 [SEC-1 Advisory] GFI MailSecurity 8.1 Web Module Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 20051012 [SEC-1 Advisory] GFI MailSecurity 8.1 Web Module Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 17136 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19926 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://kbase.gfi.com/showarticle.asp?id=KBID002451 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2005-3181 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-3182)Record last updated .