Description
The default configuration of University of Washington IMAP daemon (wu-imapd), when running on a system that does not allow shell access, allows a local user with a valid IMAP account to read arbitrary files as that user.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Access Vector
- local
- Access Cmplx
- low
- Auth
- none
- Confidentiality
- partial
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- none
- Weaknesses
- NVD-CWE-Other
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- UNIVERSITY_OF_WASHINGTON
- Published
- 12/31/2002
- Last Modified
- 4/3/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
university_of_washington : uw-imap
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