CVE-2005-2655: Maildrop

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

lockmail in maildrop before 1.5.3 does not drop privileges before executing commands, which allows local users to gain privileges via command line arguments.

Affected products

• Maildrop Maildrop: version 0.50 only; version 0.51 only; version 0.51b only; version 0.51c only; version 0.54 only; version 0.54a only; …

Published 2005-08-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.