CVE-2010-2813
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.21 does not properly handle 8-bit characters in passwords, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by making many IMAP login attempts with different usernames, leading to the creation of many preferences files.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2010-2817)
- Published
- August 19, 2010
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2010-2817 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
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References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2012/Feb/msg00000.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045372.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2010-August/045383.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0103.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40964(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40971(Vendor Advisory)
- http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2010-07-23(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php?view=patch&r1=13972&r2=13971&pathrev=13972
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5130
- http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2091
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42399
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2070(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/2080(Vendor Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=618096
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61124
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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