Vulnerability Report

CVE-2006-3216

Title: Clearswift Mailsweeper For Exchange Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2006-3216.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Jun 24, 2006
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
1.86%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2006-3216: Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP before 4.3.20 and MAILsweeper for Exchange before 4.3.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) non-ASCII characters in a reverse DNS lookup result from a Received header, which leads to a Receiver service stop, and (2) unspecified vectors involving malformed messages, which causes "unpredictable behavior" that prevents the Security service from processing more messages.

Impacted Vendors

C
clearswift 2

Reference Links

http://download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/ReadMe_MSW_4%2C3%2C20.htm http://secunia.com/advisories/20756 http://www.osvdb.org/26738 http://www.osvdb.org/26739 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18584 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2473 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27303 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27305 http://download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/ReadMe_MSW_4%2C3%2C20.htm http://secunia.com/advisories/20756 http://www.osvdb.org/26738 http://www.osvdb.org/26739 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/18584 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2473 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27303 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27305
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
5.0
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2006-3216 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

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:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.