CVE-2007-5466
Multiple buffer overflows in eXtremail 2.1.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) have an unknown impact by sending multiple long…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 19.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 2.6% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 3Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Multiple buffer overflows in eXtremail 2.1.1 and earlier allow remote attackers to (1) have an unknown impact by sending multiple long strings to the IMAP port (143/tcp); (2) execute arbitrary code via a long string in an IMAP AUTHENTICATE PLAIN action, involving the ifParseAuthPlain function; (3) execute arbitrary code via a long LOGIN command to the admin interface port (4501/tcp); or (4) execute arbitrary code via a long string in an IMAP AUTHENTICATE LOGIN (aka CRAM-MD5 authentication) action, involving the ifProcImapAuth1 function.
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. 3 references of the record are tagged as an exploit.
Show the exploits6
Exploit-DB3 entries
- eXtremail 2.1.1 - 'LOGIN' Remote Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4533remote, linuxpublished 15 Oct 2007Verified
- eXtremail 2.1.1 - PLAIN Authentication Remote Stack Overflow (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4534remote, linuxpublished 15 Oct 2007Verified
- eXtremail 2.1.1 - Remote Heap Overflow (PoC) (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 4535dos, linuxpublished 15 Oct 2007Verified
References tagged exploit3 references
- 4533 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 4535 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 4534 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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
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Published
- 17 years later
· 17 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)
- 19.9% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (10 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
11
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/extremail-v4.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 4533 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 27220 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 4535 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 4534 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- 26074 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/extremail-v5.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/extremail-v8.pl (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- extremail-crammd5-bo(37209) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.digit-labs.org/files/exploits/extremail-v6.c (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 20071015 eXtremail(ly easy) remote roots (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-2007-5441 (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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