CVE-2005-4411
Buffer overflow in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 105.
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 64.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Buffer overflow in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long request to TCP port 105.
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. A reference of the record is tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- Mercury/32 PH Server Module Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/misc/mercury_phonebookRank averagedisclosed 19 Dec 2005
Exploit-DB2 entries
- Mercury/32 < 4.01b - PH Server Module Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16419remote, windowspublished 15 Jun 2010Verified
- Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b - PH SERVER Remote Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 1375remote, windowspublished 16 Dec 2005Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 1375 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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)
- 64.7% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (10 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
6
- 1375 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 16396 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1015374 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 22103 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 18611 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mercury-mailboxnameservice-bo(23669) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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-2005-4406 (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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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2005-4411)Record last updated .