CVSS2
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
EPSS
Percentile
0.4%
Securityfocus reports:
Mutt is prone to a local buffer-overflow vulnerability
because it fails to properly bounds-check user-supplied
input before using it in a memory copy operation.
An attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary
code with the with the privileges of the victim. Failed
exploit attempts will result in a denial of service.