CVE-2006-5262
CRLF injection vulnerability in lib/session.php in Hastymail 1.5 and earlier before 20061008 allows remote authenticated users to send…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 2.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
CRLF injection vulnerability in lib/session.php in Hastymail 1.5 and earlier before 20061008 allows remote authenticated users to send arbitrary IMAP commands via a CRLF sequence in a mailbox name. NOTE: the attack crosses privilege boundaries if the IMAP server configuration prevents a user from establishing a direct IMAP session.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
Show the exploits1
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Hastymail 1.x - IMAP SMTP Command Injection (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 28777webapps, phppublished 10 Oct 2006Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.6% · top 14% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- hastymail-imap-command-execution(29407) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20061202 [ISecAuditors Security Advisories] IMAP/SMTP Injection in Hastymail (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3956 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://hastymail.sourceforge.net/security.php (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 22308 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20424 (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-2006-5247 (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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-5262)Record last updated .