Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mailutils package, versions [,1.0.6.1.1]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MAILUTILS-2374222
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed2 Jun 2005
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 2 Jun 2005

CVE-2005-1824  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for mailutils.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quote the "" (backslash) character, which is used as an escape character and makes the module vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

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