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CVE-2005-0546

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0546 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Cyrus IMAPd versions prior to 2.2.11, potentially allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code. The vulnerabilities include off-by-one errors in the annotate extension and cached header handling, as well as stack-based buffer overflows in fetchnews and imapd. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and having a low attack complexity, with potential impacts on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imapd:2.0.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imapd:2.1.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.17CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imapd:2.1.17:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imapd:2.1.18:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.2.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:cyrus:imapd:2.2.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.24%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0424 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: cyrus-imapd-0:2.2.12-3.RHEL4.1
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2005-0546Moderate

security flaw

Feb 14, 2005

References

asg.web.cmu.edu / archive/message.php
Patch
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
distro.conectiva.com.br / atualizacoes
Vendor Advisory
marc.info
secunia.com / advisories/14383
PatchVendor Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200502-29.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10674
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2005-408.html
securityfocus.com / archive/1/430294/100/0/threaded
securityfocus.com / bid/12636