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CVE-2006-0977
Craig Morrison Mail Transport System Professional (aka MTS Pro) acts as an open relay when configured to relay all mail through an…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 1.7%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 23% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Craig Morrison Mail Transport System Professional (aka MTS Pro) acts as an open relay when configured to relay all mail through an external SMTP server, which allows remote attackers to relay mail by connecting to the MTS Pro server, then sending a MAIL FROM that specifies a domain that is local to the server.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.7% · top 23% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References5
- ADV-2006-0786 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 19067 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 16840 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20060225 Mail Transport System Professional--Open Relay Hole (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- mts-mail-relay(24985) (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-2006-0980 (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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