CVE-2006-6423
Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service for MailEnable Professional and Enterprise Edition 2.0 through 2.35, Professional Edition…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 81.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 0.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 4Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service for MailEnable Professional and Enterprise Edition 2.0 through 2.35, Professional Edition 1.6 through 1.84, and Enterprise Edition 1.1 through 1.41 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a pre-authentication command followed by a crafted parameter and a long string, as addressed by the ME-10025 hotfix.
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 3 Exploit-DB entries for it.
Show the exploits4
Metasploit modules1 module
- MailEnable IMAPD (2.34/2.35) Login Request Buffer Overflow (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
exploit/windows/imap/mailenable_loginRank greatdisclosed 11 Dec 2006
Exploit-DB3 entries
- MailEnable IMAPD Professional (2.35) - Login Request Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 16475remote, windowspublished 30 Apr 2010Verified
- MailEnable IMAPD Enterprise 2.32 < 2.34 - Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3319remote, windowspublished 16 Feb 2007Verified
- MailEnable IMAPD Professional 2.35 - Remote Buffer Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 3320remote, windowspublished 16 Feb 2007Verified
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 flexera
- 3 days later
· 3 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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 81.6% · top 0.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-73/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 2022 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 21492 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- mailenable-bounds-imap-bo(30796) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 23201 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 20061211 Secunia Research: MailEnable IMAP Service Buffer OverflowVulnerability (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-2006-6406 (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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