CVEvulnerability

CVE-2000-0583

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2000-06-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2000-06-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

vchkpw program in vpopmail before version 4.8 does not properly cleanse an untrusted format string used in a call to syslog, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a USER or PASS command that contains arbitrary formatting directives.

Affected configurations

• inter7 vpopmail vchkpw 4.5 • inter7 vpopmail vchkpw 4.7

References