Pine 4.44 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and failed restart) via an email message with a From h
Pine 4.44 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (core dump and failed restart) via an email message with a From header that contains a large number of quotation marks (").
- Published
- Dec 11, 2002
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 9.6% · 95th percentile
- CWE
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Action score
23
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.0 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 3 / 30 · 9.6%
Affected systems
| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| university of washington | pine | cpe:2.3:a:university_of_washington:pine |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- university of washington pine3.98
- university of washington pine4.0.2
- university of washington pine4.0.4
- university of washington pine4.10
- university of washington pine4.20
- university of washington pine4.21
- university of washington pine4.30
- university of washington pine4.33
- university of washington pine4.44
Same product
university of washington: all recordsOther highest-scoring records for the same primary product.
- CVE-2000-0352Pine before version 4.21 does not properly filter shell metacharacters from URLs, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary command41Plan
- CVE-2000-0353Pine 4.x allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands via an index.html file which executes lynx and obtains a uudecoded file from41Plan
- CVE-2003-0720Buffer overflow in PINE before 4.58 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed message/external-body MIME type.34Monitor
- CVE-2000-0909Buffer overflow in the automatic mail checking component of Pine 4.21 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via 33Monitor
- CVE-2002-2325The c-client library in Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) dated before 2002 RC2, as used by Pine 4.20 through 4.44, allows remote atta32Monitor
- CVE-2002-0014URL-handling code in Pine 4.43 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a URL enclosed in single quotes and con31Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
Proof of concept available
A public proof of concept or detection signature exists. Exploit knowledge is out there; don't delay patching.
Evidence
- Exploit-DB entry ×1
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| Source | Kind | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Exploit-DB entry | dos | 2002-11-07 |
Research context
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Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
- First PoC-34 d
- Published
- TodaySep 30, 2026+8694 d
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.
No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Confidentiality impact
- None
- Integrity impact
- None
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Noroxi analysis
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References
- distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000551
- marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103668430620531&w=2
- marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103884988306241&w=2
- www.iss.net/security_center/static/10555.php
- www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-084.php
- www.linuxsecurity.com/advisories/engarde_advisory-2614.html
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_046_pine.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-270.html
- www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2002-271.html
Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.