Vulnerability CVE-2005-1824
Published: 2005-06-02   Modified: 2012-02-12

Description:
The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quote the "\" (backslash) character, which is used as an escape character and makes the module vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
GNU -> Mailutils 

 References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml
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