CVE-2005-0198

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.

Affected products

University Of Washington Uw-Imap: all versions

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/14057
http://secunia.com/advisories/14097
http://securitytracker.com/id?1013037
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200502-02.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/702777
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/CRDY-68QSL5
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:026
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-128.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/12391
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11306
http://secunia.com/advisories/14057
http://secunia.com/advisories/14097

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