CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2005-1520

    CVE-2005-1520

    Buffer overflow in the header_get_field_name function in header.c for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted e-mail.

    Published:May 26, 2005
    Last Modified:Apr 16, 2026
    EPS:May 26, 2005
    EPSS Score:0.14551
    CVSS Score:7.5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Gnu
    Product
    Mailutils

    Exploits

    https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/25706

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2019-18862 (CVSS 7.8) — maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.…
    CVE-2005-2878 (CVSS 7.5) — Format string vulnerability in search.c in the imap4d server in GNU Mailutils 0.6 allows remote authenticated …
    CVE-2005-1824 (CVSS 7.5) — The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quo…
    CVE-2005-1521 (CVSS 7.5) — Integer overflow in the fetch_io function of the imap4d server in GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other version…
    CVE-2005-1523 (CVSS 7.5) — Format string vulnerability in imap4d server in GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, a…
    CVE-2005-1522 (CVSS 5) — The imap4d server for GNU Mailutils 0.5 and 0.6, and other versions before 0.6.90, allows authenticated remote…
    CVE-2004-0984 (CVSS 7.2) — Unknown vulnerability in the dotlock implementation in mailutils before 1:0.5-4 on Debian GNU/Linux allows att…

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High