CVE-2005-4726

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2005-4726 · Published 31/12/2005 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2005-4726 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting mute (mute).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.4%, higher than 72.1% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mute mute	`= 0.4`	No fix yet

Description

MUTE 0.4 uses improper flood protection algorithms, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (privacy leak and search result data) by controlling a drop chain neighbor that is near the end of a message chain.

References

sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php
sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php
osvdb.org/23335

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