CVE-2006-4379
Stack-based buffer overflow in the SMTP Daemon in Ipswitch Collaboration 2006 Suite Premium and Standard Editions, IMail, IMail Plus, and…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 60.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the SMTP Daemon in Ipswitch Collaboration 2006 Suite Premium and Standard Editions, IMail, IMail Plus, and IMail Secure allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long string located after an '@' character and before a ':' character.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits3
Exploit-DB3 entries
- Ipswitch IMail Server 8.10-8.12 - RCPT TO Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3264remote, windowspublished 4 Feb 2007Verified
- Ipswitch IMail Server 8.10-8.12 - RCPT TO Remote Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3265remote, windowspublished 4 Feb 2007Verified
- Ipswitch IMail Server 2006 / 8.x - 'RCPT' Remote Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 2601remote, windowspublished 19 Oct 2006Verified
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
- 11 days later
· 11 days later
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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 60.9% · top 0.8% of all CVEs (11 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
References10
- 21795 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20060907 ZDI-06-028: Ipswitch Collaboration Suite SMTP Server Stack Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 1016804 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 19885 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.ipswitch.com/support/imail/releases/im20061.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ipswitch-smtp-daemon-code-execution(28789) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.ipswitch.com/support/ics/updates/ics20061.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-028.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 1016803 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-3496 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_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-2006-4367 (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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