CVE-2003-0296

The IMAP Client for Evolution 1.2.4 allows remote malicious IMAP servers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code via certain large literal size values that cause either integer signedness errors or integer overflow errors.

Published: 2003-06-16 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2003-0296 is rated Moderate Risk (55/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.95%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2003-0296

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 1.95% 0.95% -1.00%
2 2025-03-29 0.95% 1.95% +1.00%
3 2025-03-17 0.95%

Full EPSS history (5 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2003-0296

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2003-0296

OS Trackers for CVE-2003-0296

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2003-0296 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (evolution), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2003-0296

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2003-0296

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
ximian evolution 1.2.4 cpe:2.3:a:ximian:evolution:1.2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2003-0296

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