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CVE-2006-6605Stack-based buffer overflow in the POP service in MailEnable Standard 1.98 and earlier; Professional 1.84, and 2.35 and earlier; and…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 5.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in the POP service in MailEnable Standard 1.98 and earlier; Professional 1.84, and 2.35 and earlier; and Enterprise 1.41, and 2.35 and earlier before ME-10026 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the PASS command.
Timeline
ID reserved
By flexera
- 2 days later
· 2 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)
- 5.9% · top 6.6% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
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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
References8
- 1017395 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 23127 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 2053 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 21645 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20061218 Secunia Research: MailEnable POP Service "PASS" Command BufferOverflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-75/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- ADV-2006-5052 (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-2006-6588 (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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