CVE-2005-1348
Buffer overflow in HTTPMail in MailEnable Enterprise 1.04 and earlier and Professional 1.54 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 72.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in HTTPMail in MailEnable Enterprise 1.04 and earlier and Professional 1.54 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP Authorization header.
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 2 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Metasploit modules1 module
- MailEnable Authorization Header Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/http/mailenable_auth_headerRank greatdisclosed 24 Apr 2005
Exploit-DB2 entries
- MailEnable - Authorisation Header Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16781remote, windowspublished 7 Jul 2010Verified
- MailEnable Enterprise & Professional - https Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 952remote, windowspublished 25 Apr 2005Verified
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
ID reserved
By mitre
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)
- 72.6% · 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
4
- http://www.x0n3-h4ck.org/upload/x0n3-h4ck_mailenable_https.pl (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 15737 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 1013786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20050424 MailEnable HTTPS Buffer Overflow [x0n3-h4ck] (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_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-2005-1351 (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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