CVE-2008-5514

mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.018 · 78 %ileEUUS
grimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
1.76% (78th) EPSS
CVSS 4.3 · medium
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38 products
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Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

Off-by-one error in the rfc822_output_char function in the RFC822BUFFER routines in the University of Washington (UW) c-client library, as used by the UW IMAP toolkit before imap-2007e and other applications, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via an e-mail message that triggers a buffer overflow.

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cvss

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4.3
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 3.7–4.3

v2.04.3mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 2.9
v2.03.7lowAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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affected products (38)

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also known as (2)

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published 2008-12-23modified 2026-06-16
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