Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4456

RCE

Title: MailEnable IMAP long command buffer overflows (LIST/LSUB/UID FETCH)

DoS/RCE

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2005-4456

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Dec 21, 2005

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.8 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

5.47%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4456: Multiple buffer overflows in MailEnable Professional 1.71 and Enterprise 1.1 before patch ME-10009 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long (1) LIST, (2) LSUB, and (3) UID FETCH commands. NOTE: it is possible that these are alternate vectors for the issue described in CVE-2005-4402.

Impacted Vendors

mailenable 2

Reference Links

http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Dec/1036.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18134 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15985 http://seclists.org/lists/fulldisclosure/2005/Dec/1036.html http://secunia.com/advisories/18134 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15985

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4456 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/1378

View Code

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 21, 2005 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.