{"id":"CVE-2005-1824","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2005-1824","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:52:08.549Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2005-06-02T04:00:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:13:45.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["gnu/mailutils"],"epss":{"score":0.0108,"percentile":0.64859,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.08%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=308031","tags":["Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200506-02.xml","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-1824","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}