CVE-2008-1055
Format string vulnerability in webmail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier and beta 39a, and WebMail 3.1s and earlier, allows remote…
- 7.5HighCVSS base score
- 7.9%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Format string vulnerability in webmail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier and beta 39a, and WebMail 3.1s and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the page parameter.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list an Exploit-DB entry for it.
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Exploit-DB1 entry
- Surgemail and WebMail 3.0 - 'Page' Remote Format String (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 31300dos, windowspublished 25 Feb 2008Verified
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 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 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.9% · top 5.2% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
9
- 3705 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/surgemailz-adv.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 29137 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 29105 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- ADV-2008-0678 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1019500 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 20080225 Format string and buffer-overflow in SurgeMail 38k4 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- surgemail-webmail-format-string(40833) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 27990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_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-2008-1066 (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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