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CVE-2005-1824

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-06-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quote the "\" (backslash) character, which is used as an escape character and makes the module vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

Affected products

• GNU Mailutils: 1.0.6.1.1

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml
• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml

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