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CVE-2004-1015

26
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-1015 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the proxyd component of Cyrus IMAP Server versions 2.2.9 and earlier, specifically when the imapmagicplus option is enabled. This flaw affects various distributions including Carnegie Mellon University, Red Hat, and Ubuntu Linux. With a CVSS score of 10.0, this vulnerability is highly severe, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with low attack complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Despite its critical severity, 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
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:carnegie_mellon_university:cyrus_imap_server:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:carnegie_mellon_university:cyrus_imap_server:1.5.19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:carnegie_mellon_university:cyrus_imap_server:2.0.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:carnegie_mellon_university:cyrus_imap_server:2.0.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:carnegie_mellon_university:cyrus_imap_server:2.1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
5.18%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
91.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0518 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 51,455 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)

gentoopatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

asg.web.cmu.edu / archive/message.php
asg.web.cmu.edu / cyrus/download/imapd/changes.html
security.gentoo.org / glsa/glsa-200411-34.xml
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/18274
mandriva.com / security/advisories