7.5

CVE-2005-4591: bogofilter email_filter

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesDEBIAN-CVE-2005-4591
Published 09-01-2006Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2005-4591 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in bogofilter email_filter. EPSS estimates a 5.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 92.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
31/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
5.51%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 09-01-2006
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in bogofilter 0.96.2, 0.95.2, 0.94.14, 0.94.12, and other versions from 0.93.5 to 0.96.2, when using Unicode databases, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via "invalid input sequences" that lead to heap corruption when bogofilter or bogolexer converts character sets.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

5.51%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

93%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 5.51% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
5.51%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Bogofilter1 product
Debian1 product
  • bogofilter< 0.96.3

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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