CVE-2010-2813

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

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.

Affected products

SquirrelMail: through 1.4.20; 1.4, 1.4-rc1, 1.4.0, 1.4.0-rc1, 1.4.0-rc2a, 1.4.0-r1 (+47)

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
http://secunia.com/advisories/40971
http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2010-07-23
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

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