CVE-2005-1824

GNU mailutils - SQL Injection via Improper Backslash Escaping in SQL Authentication Module

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml
Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031

Scores

EPSS 0.0102
EPSS Percentile 77.5%

Details

Status published
Products (1)
gnu/mailutils 1.0.6.1.1
Published Jun 02, 2005
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026