CVE-2005-2769

Exp

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SqWebMail 5.0.4 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML e-mail containing tags with strings that contain ">" or other special characters, which is not properly sanitized by SqWebMail.

Published: 2005-09-02 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2005-2769 is rated High Exploit Risk (69.1/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 10.95%, 93th percentile). 4 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +4.45% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2005-2769

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
26200 exploit_db edb 2005-08-29 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2005-2769

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 6.50% 10.95% +4.45%
2 2025-03-29 10.95% 6.50% -4.45%
3 2025-03-23 — 10.95% —

Full EPSS history (7 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2005-2769

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2005-2769

OS Trackers for CVE-2005-2769

vendor priority summary link
debian medium CVE-2005-2769 medium priority: Debian including 1 source packages (courier), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-2769
ubuntu medium CVE-2005-2769 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (courier), 4 status rows across 4 suites (dapper, edgy, feisty, upstream): released 3, needs-triage 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2005-2769

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2005-2769

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
inter7 sqwebmail 5.0.4 cpe:2.3:a:inter7:sqwebmail:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2005-2769

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