CVE-2008-3676
Unspecified vulnerability in the IMAP server in hMailServer 4.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource…
- 4.3MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in the IMAP server in hMailServer 4.4.1 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion or daemon crash) via a long series of IMAP commands.
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
- hMAilServer 4.4.1 - IMAP Command Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 32229dos, windowspublished 12 Aug 2008Verified
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Timeline
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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 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- 31480 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 30663 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- hmailserver-imap-dos(44429) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 4155 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 20080812 [AJECT] hMailServer 4.4.1 DoS vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.hmailserver.com/documentation/?page=changelog (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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-2008-3662 (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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