CVE-2005-0198 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-0198 at MITRE

Description

A logic error in the CRAM-MD5 code for the University of Washington IMAP (UW-IMAP) server, when Challenge-Response Authentication Mechanism with MD5 (CRAM-MD5) is enabled, does not properly enforce all the required conditions for successful authentication, which allows remote attackers to authenticate as arbitrary users.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.5
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	Partial
Integrity Impact	Partial
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 64942 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2005:012, published Tue, 1 Mar 2005 10:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SR:2005:006, published Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 00:57:45 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:38 2025