CVE-2004-1211
Multiple buffer overflows in the IMAP service in Mercury/32 4.01a allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 72.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 8Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in the IMAP service in Mercury/32 4.01a allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) EXAMINE, (2) SUBSCRIBE, (3) STATUS, (4) APPEND, (5) CHECK, (6) CLOSE, (7) EXPUNGE, (8) FETCH, (9) RENAME, (10) DELETE, (11) LIST, (12) SEARCH, (13) CREATE, or (14) UNSUBSCRIBE commands.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module and 7 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits8
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mercury/32 v4.01a IMAP RENAME Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/imap/mercury_renameRank averagedisclosed 29 Nov 2004
Exploit-DB7 entries
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01a - IMAP RENAME Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16484remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 3.32 < 4.51 - SMTP EIP Overwrite (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4316remote, windowspublished 26 Aug 2007Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.0.1 - 'LOGIN' Remote IMAP Stack Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3561remote, windowspublished 24 Mar 2007Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01a - 'check' Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1159dos, windowspublished 1 Dec 2004Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (2) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 670remote, windowspublished 1 Dec 2004Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (1) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 668remote, windowspublished 30 Nov 2004Verified
- Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (3) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 663remote, windowspublished 29 Nov 2004Verified
Modules, templates and exploits as listed by the Metasploit Framework (BSD-3-Clause), ProjectDiscovery's Nuclei templates (MIT) and the Exploit Database (GPLv2), read once a day. Where the data comes from
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Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 72.5% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
7
- http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jaabogae/han/m_401b.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 13348 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20041201 Multiple buffer overflows exist in Mercury/32, v4.01a, Dec 8 2003. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- 11775 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20041201 Multiple buffer overflows exist in Mercury/32, v4.01a, Dec 8 2003. (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- mercury-command-bo(18318) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 12508 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2004-1208 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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