CVE-2004-1558
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in YPOPs! (aka YahooPOPS) 0.4 through 0.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 71.1%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in YPOPs! (aka YahooPOPS) 0.4 through 0.6 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long (1) POP3 USER command or (2) SMTP request.
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 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- YPOPS 0.6 Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/smtp/ypops_overflow1Rank averagedisclosed 27 Sept 2004
Exploit-DB3 entries
- YahooPOPs (YPOPS) 0.6 - Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16818remote, windowspublished 9 May 2010Verified
- YahooPOPs 1.6 - SMTP Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 582remote, windowspublished 18 Oct 2004Verified
- YahooPOPs 1.6 - SMTP Port Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 577remote, windowspublished 15 Oct 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
Timeline
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Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 71.1% · top 0.6% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
11
- http://dbeusee.home.comcast.net/history.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 10366 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- http://www.hat-squad.com/en/000075.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20040927 [Hat-Squad] Remote Buffer overflow Vulnerability in YahooPOPS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 10367 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ypops-smtp-bo(17518) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 1011426 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 12660 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ypops-pop3-bo(17515) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 20061020 vendor ACK for old YPOPs! issue (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_VIMx_transferred
- 11256 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2004-1552 (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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