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CVE-2010-2813

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-399 Resource Management Errors
Publication date:
19/08/2010
Last modified:
11/04/2025

Description

functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.21 does not properly handle 8-bit characters in passwords, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by making many IMAP login attempts with different usernames, leading to the creation of many preferences files.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 5.00 MEDIUM
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): None
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0
5.00
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1.4.20 (including)
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0:rc2a:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0-r1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0_rc1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0_rc2a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2-r1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2-r2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2-r3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2-r4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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