CVE-2005-4080

medium

Description

Horde IMP 4.0.4 and earlier does not sanitize strings containing UTF16 null characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via UTF16 encoded attachments and strings that will be executed when viewed using Internet Explorer, which ignores the characters.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/23465

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2773

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/418734/100/0/threaded

http://securitytracker.com/id?1015315

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/232

http://secunia.com/advisories/17910

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-08

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.01047