01 Record
CVE-2005-4445
Off-by-one error in Pegasus Mail 4.21a through 4.21c and 4.30PB1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long email message header, which triggers a one-byte buffer overflow.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Off-by-one error in Pegasus Mail 4.21a through 4.21c and 4.30PB1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long email message header, which triggers a one-byte buffer overflow.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.08% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 87.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-12-21 02:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 23:46Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-12-21
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 1d8a41924f39285bd153fe719af326e03e8b4db7fdc883f700f4531c4289ecf6
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- secunia.comhttp://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-61/advisory/
- www.securityfocus.com20051220 Secunia Research: Pegasus Mail Buffer Overflow and Off-by-OneVulnerabilitieshttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/419908/100/0/threaded
- securitytracker.com1015385http://securitytracker.com/id?1015385
- secunia.com17992http://secunia.com/advisories/17992
- www.securityfocus.com15973http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15973
- www.osvdb.org21843http://www.osvdb.org/21843
- www.pmail.comhttp://www.pmail.com/newsflash.htm#secunia