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CVE-2005-0404

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0404 describes a spoofing vulnerability in KMail 1.7.1 within KDE 3.3.2, allowing remote attackers to manipulate email information like digital signatures or encryption status through specially crafted HTML emails. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with low attack complexity and no authentication required, primarily impacting integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-25375). Community discussion and media coverage for this CVE are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.7.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:kmail:kmail:1.7.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:kde:kde:3.3.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.98%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-25375 · Apr 11, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0298 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

bugs.kde.org / show_bug.cgi
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory
mail.kde.org / pipermail/kmail-devel/2005-February/015490.html
Vendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/14925
Vendor Advisory
securiteam.com / unixfocus/5GP0B0AFFE.html
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory