CVE-2002-1782

LOW 2.1CVE-2002-1782 · Published 31/12/2002 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2002-1782 is a LOW (CVSS 2.1) vulnerability affecting uw-imap (university of washington).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 0.34%, higher than 28.0% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
uw-imap university_of_washington	`= 2001.0a`	No fix yet

Description

The default configuration of University of Washington IMAP daemon (wu-imapd), when running on a system that does not allow shell access, allows a local user with a valid IMAP account to read arbitrary files as that user.

References

online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/275127
security.nnov.ru/advisories/courier.asp · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/4909
washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9238

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