CVE-2002-1765 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Ximian Evolution versions 1.0.3 and 1.0.4. This flaw allows remote attackers to trigger a memory consumption and crash by sending an email with a malformed MIME header. With a CVSS score of 5.0, this vulnerability is considered medium severity, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only impacting availability. Despite its age, there is no known exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB) and it is not listed in the KEV catalog, though it has garnered significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ximian:evolution:1.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ximian:evolution:1.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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