CVE-1999-1224: University Of Washington Imapd

Low severity, CVSS 3.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IMAP 4.1 BETA, and possibly other versions, does not properly handle the SIGABRT (abort) signal, which allows local users to crash the server (imapd) via certain sequences of commands, which causes a core dump that may contain sensitive password information.

Affected products

Published 1997-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-16.