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CVE-2010-2813

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.0 Published: 2010-08-19 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

functions/imap_general.php in SquirrelMail before 1.4.21 does not properly handle 8-bit characters in passwords, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (disk consumption) by making many IMAP login attempts with different usernames, leading to the creation of many preferences files.

Affected Platforms

Squirrelmail Squirrelmail

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References