Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2007-5740 in the critical feed json

The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbi…

published 2007-10-31 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2007-5711

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
12.4%
EPSS 12.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an IMAP tag with a null byte followed by a format string specifier, which is not counted by the mechanism.

Patch / fix

  • perdition Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.17.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2007-5740

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-30724)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

12.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-30724 Perdition 1.17 - IMAPD __STR_VWRITE Remote Format String dos, 2007-10-31

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-134 Use of Externally-Controlled Format String

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.