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National Vulnerability Database

National Vulnerability Database

NVD

National Vulnerability Database
  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-0198 Detail

Description

A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.


Metrics

 
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CVSS 2.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

National Institute of Standards and Technology
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  7.5 HIGH
Vector:  (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://secunia.com/advisories/14057 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/14097 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013037 CVE, MITRE
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-02.xml CVE, MITRE Patch 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/702777 CVE, MITRE Third Party Advisory  US Government Resource 
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-68QSL5 CVE, MITRE Patch  US Government Resource 
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:026 CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-128.html CVE, MITRE Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12391 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11306 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
NVD-CWE-Other Other cwe source acceptance level NIST  

Known Affected Software Configurations Switch to CPE 2.2

Configuration 1 ( hide )
 cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:uw-imap:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2005-0198
NVD Published Date:
05/02/2005
NVD Last Modified:
04/02/2025
Source:
MITRE