CVE-2006-6290
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.82 and 2.0 through 2.33,…
- 6.5MediumCVSS base score
- 3.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 11% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Multiple stack-based buffer overflows in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.82 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable Enterprise 1.1 through 1.30 and 2.0 through 2.33 allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the (1) EXAMINE or (2) SELECT command.
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 | Medium6.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.5% · top 11% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References11
- 1017276 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4778 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23080 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21362 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1017319 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4673 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20061130 Secunia Research: MailEnable IMAP Service Two Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 23047 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mailenable-meimaps-bo(30614) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2006-6273 (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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