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uw-imap — security advisory
A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.
- Products
- uw-imap
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 7:2002edebian1-6
- CVEs
- CVE-2005-0198
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 20:41 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-0198
uw-imap
Fixed versions: 7:2002edebian1-6
Complete source record
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