CVE-2008-5005
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 6.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.3% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in (1) University of Washington IMAP Toolkit 2002 through 2007c, (2) University of Washington Alpine 2.00 and earlier, and (3) Panda IMAP allow (a) local users to gain privileges by specifying a long folder extension argument on the command line to the tmail or dmail program; and (b) remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending e-mail to a destination mailbox name composed of a username and '+' character followed by a long string, processed by the tmail or possibly dmail program.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (12 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References28
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10485 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- http://panda.com/imap/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081103 CVE request - uw-imap (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-9396 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.bitsec.com/en/rad/bsa-081103.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-065.htm (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081103 Re: CVE request - uw-imap (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- http://www.washington.edu/alpine/tmailbug.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 4570 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20081103 Bitsec Security Advisory: UW/Panda IMAP [dt]mail buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- [imap-uw] 20081031 Security bug in tmail and dmail (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- DSA-1685 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- 32483 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 32072 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- uwimapd-tmail-bo(46281) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 33142 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-9383 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=469667 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- RHSA-2009:0275 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 20081103 Bitsec Security Advisory: UW/Panda IMAP [dt]mail buffer overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- [imap-uw] 20081031 Security bug in tmail and dmail (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 33996 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2009:146 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 32512 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081103 Re: CVE request - uw-imap (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- ADV-2008-3042 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1021131 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_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-2008-4984 (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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