Vulnerability in Squirrelmail

CVE-2010-2813

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.

EPSS: 0.040 (89.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Squirrelmail — versions 1.4.2-r1, 1.4.11, 1.4.4_rc1
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References