CVE-2006-6997
Unspecified vulnerability in a cryptographic feature in MailEnable Standard Edition before 1.93, Professional Edition before 1.73, and…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 1.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 21% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in a cryptographic feature in MailEnable Standard Edition before 1.93, Professional Edition before 1.73, and Enterprise Edition before 1.21 leads to "weakened authentication security" with unknown impact and attack vectors. NOTE: due to lack of details, it is not clear whether this is the same as CVE-2006-1792.
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 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 1.8% · top 21% 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
References4
- http://www.mailenable.com/professionalhistory.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/enterprisehistory.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20060320 [MU-200603-01] MailEnable POP3 Pre-Authentication Buffer Overflow (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_FULLDISCx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/standardhistory.asp (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_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-2006-6979 (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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