CVE-2003-1302

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2003-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The IMAP functionality in PHP before 4.3.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an e-mail message with a (1) To or (2) From header with an address that contains a large number of "\" (backslash) characters.

Affected products

PHP: 4.2, 4.2.0, 4.2.1, 4.2.2, 4.2.3, 4.3.0

References

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175040
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=22048
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=175040

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