CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0996

6.4 MEDIUM Published 2001-09-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-09-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.4 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Description

POP3Lite before 0.2.4 does not properly quote a . (dot) in an email message, which could allow a remote attacker to append arbitrary text to the end of an email message, which could then be interpreted by various mail clients as valid POP server responses or other input that could cause clients to crash or otherwise behave unexpectedly.

Affected configurations

• pop3lite pop3lite 0.2.3 • pop3lite pop3lite 0.2.3b

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-147 Improper Neutralization of Input Terminators weakness

References