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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2002-0379 in the critical feed json

Buffer overflow in University of Washington imap server (uw-imapd) imap-2001 (imapd 2001.315) and imap-2001a (imapd 2001.315) with legacy R…

published 2002-06-25 24 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2002-0376

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.4%
EPSS 19.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
2
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in University of Washington imap server (uw-imapd) imap-2001 (imapd 2001.315) and imap-2001a (imapd 2001.315) with legacy RFC 1730 support, and imapd 2000.287 and earlier, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long BODY request.

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-2002-0379 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Linux 6.2 Red Hat Linux 7.0 Red Hat Linux 7.1 Red Hat Linux 7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2002:092

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

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-21443)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-21443 WU-IMAPd 2000/2001 - Partial Mailbox Attribute Remote Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 2002-05-10
  • EDB-21442 WU-IMAPd 2000/2001 - Partial Mailbox Attribute Remote Buffer Overflow (1) remote, 2002-05-10

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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