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$ cve CVE-2003-0128 JSON

CVE-2003-0128 EXPLOIT

5.0
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 16.5% (pctl 97)

Patch early

A public exploit exists.

Description

The try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a malicious uuencoded (UUE) header, possibly triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.

Scoring

CVSS5.0 (MEDIUM, v2.0)
VectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS16.52% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs
On CISA KEVno
Public exploityes
Published2003-03-24
Last modified2026-06-16

Affected (1)

VendorProduct
ximianevolution

Public exploits

SourceTitleDate
exploit-dbXimian Evolution 1.x - UUEncoding Denial of Service2003-03-17

References

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