7.5

CVE-2009-0688: carnegie_mellon_university cyrus-sasl

CVSS: 7.5v2.0HighModified
AliasesRHSA-2009:1116DEBIAN-CVE-2009-0688DSA-1807-1
Published 15-05-2009Last modified 07-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2009-0688 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in carnegie_mellon_university cyrus-sasl. EPSS estimates a 8.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
32/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
8.21%
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. 15-05-2009
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 07-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the CMU Cyrus SASL library before 2.1.23 might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (application crash) via strings that are used as input to the sasl_encode64 function in lib/saslutil.c.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

8.21%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

95%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 8.21% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
8.21%

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

Affected systems

Redhat8 products
  • cyrus-imapd< 0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.1 | < 0:2.3.7-2.el5_3.2
  • cyrus-imapd-debuginfo< 0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.1 | < 0:2.3.7-2.el5_3.2
  • cyrus-imapd-devel< 0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.1 | < 0:2.3.7-2.el5_3.2
  • cyrus-imapd-murder< 0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.1
  • cyrus-imapd-nntp< 0:2.2.12-10.el4_8.1
Debian2 products
  • cyrus-sasl2< 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+squeeze1 | < 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 | < 2.1.22.dfsg1-8+etch1 | < 2.1.23.dfsg1-1
  • cyrus-sasl2-heimdal< 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+squeeze1 | < 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1
Carnegie_mellon_university1 product
  • cyrus-sasl≤ 2.1.22 | 1.4.1 | 1.5.0 | 1.5.2 | 1.5.3 | 1.5.5 | 1.5.10 | 1.5.11 | 1.5.13 | 1.5.15 | 1.5.16 | 1.5.20 | 1.5.21 | 1.5.22 | 1.5.23 | 1.5.24 | 1.5.26 | 1.5.27 | 1.5.28 | 2.0.0 | 2.0.1 | 2.0.2 | 2.0.3 | 2.0.4 | 2.0.5 | 2.1.0 | 2.1.1 | 2.1.2 | 2.1.3 | 2.1.5 | 2.1.6 | 2.1.7 | 2.1.8 | 2.1.9 | 2.1.10 | 2.1.11 | 2.1.12 | 2.1.13 | 2.1.14 | 2.1.15 | 2.1.16 | 2.1.17 | 2.1.18 | 2.1.19 | 2.1.20 | 2.1.21

3 vendors · 11 products

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