Ximian develops the Evolution email and calendar suite, a messaging platform that has maintained prominence in open-source and enterprise Linux environments despite its narrow product scope. While vulnerabilities affecting this vendor remain modest in volume, they have frequently acquired public exploit tooling, reflecting the application's historical role as a mail client target and the appeal of parsing flaws in email handling to attackers. Current exploitation activity and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Ximian over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (8 CVEs).
8 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2003-0129MEDIUM Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a mail message that is uuencoded multiple times. | Mar 24, 2003 | 5.0 | 33 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0128MEDIUM The try_uudecoding function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execut | Mar 24, 2003 | 5.0 | 29 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0130MEDIUM The handle_image function in mail-format.c for Ximian Evolution Mail User Agent 1.2.2 and earlier does not properly escape HTML characters, which allows remote attackers to inject | Mar 24, 2003 | 5.0 | 26 | NO | YES |
CVE-2003-0296HIGH The IMAP Client for Evolution 1.2.4 allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain large literal size values that | Jun 16, 2003 | 7.5 | 20 | NO | NO |
CVE-2002-1765MEDIUM Evolution 1.0.3 and 1.0.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and crash) via an email with a malformed MIME header. | Dec 31, 2002 | 5.0 | 19 | NO | NO |
CVE-2003-0300MEDIUM The IMAP Client for Sylpheed 0.8.11 allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service (crash) via certain large literal size values that cause either integer signed | Jun 16, 2003 | 5.0 | 18 | NO | NO |
CVE-2005-0806MEDIUM Evolution 2.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash or hang) via crafted messages, possibly involving charsets in attachment filenames. | May 2, 2005 | 5.0 | 15 | NO | NO |
CVE-2002-1471MEDIUM The camel component for Ximian Evolution 1.0.x and earlier does not verify certificates when it establishes a new SSL connection after previously verifying a certificate, which cou | Apr 22, 2003 | 5.0 | 15 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (8 CVEs).
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