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medium 5.5

CVE-2005-2351 json

Mutt before 1.5.20 patch 7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a series of requests to mutt temporary files.

published 2019-11-01 7 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-2352

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 28%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Mutt before 1.5.20 patch 7 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service via a series of requests to mutt temporary files.

Patch / fix

  • mutt Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.20-7

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-2351

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2005-2351 updated cvss 5.5

mutt: denial of service via a series of requests to temporary files

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 mutt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 mutt
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 mutt Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 mutt
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 28% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • mutt mutt

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-668 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

References

Sources

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