CVE-2007-5740: Vergenet Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 12.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The format string protection mechanism in IMAPD for Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy 1.17 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an IMAP tag with a null byte followed by a format string specifier, which is not counted by the mechanism.

Affected products

• Vergenet Perdition Mail Retrieval Proxy: up to and including 1.17

Published 2007-10-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.