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CVE-2005-0892

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-0892 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in smail 3.2.0.120. This flaw allows remote attackers or local users to execute arbitrary code by supplying an excessively long string in the MAIL FROM command, and potentially other SMTP commands. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, enabling complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity and no authentication required. While not listed on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation or significant community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.2.0.120CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:smail:smail:3.2.0.120:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

10.0HIGH

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

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

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
9.00%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-900 · Mar 28, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0900 is in the 91st 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 (1)

debianpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

marc.info
debian.org / security/2005/dsa-722
PatchVendor Advisory