CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-1824

7.5 HIGH Published 2005-06-02 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2005-06-02
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The sql_escape_string function in auth/sql.c for the mailutils SQL authentication module does not properly quote the "\" (backslash) character, which is used as an escape character and makes the module vulnerable to SQL injection attacks.

Affected configurations

• gnu mailutils 1.0.6.1.1

Related

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

  • CWE-184 Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs weakness

References