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CVE-2005-4348
fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
High7.8EPSS 3.6%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
fetchmail before 6.3.1 and before 6.2.5.5, when configured for multidrop mode, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by sending messages without headers from upstream mail servers.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 2 days later
· 2 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 | High7.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (29)
- 18266 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18172 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 18231 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3101 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20051221 fetchmail security announcement fetchmail-SA-2005-03 (CVE-2005-4348) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 21253 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1015383 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- SSA:2006-045-01 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SLACKWAREx_transferred
- 17891 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 19289 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 2006-0002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIXx_transferred
- 18463 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24284 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 24007 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9659 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- 15987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=343836 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- fetchmail-null-pointer-dos(23713) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:004 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- USN-233-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
- 21906 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2005-2996 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- MDKSA-2005:236 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 20060526 rPSA-2006-0084-1 fetchmail (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0018 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 18895 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- DSA-939 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 18433 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-SA-2005-03.txt (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)
- 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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