CVE-2009-3749
The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 7.6%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.4% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a HTTP GET request to TCP port 8181 and closing the socket before the service can send a response.
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
- Websense Email Security - Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 9980dos, hardwarepublished 20 Oct 2009Verified
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Timeline
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Published
- 15 years later
· 15 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 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 7.6% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References7
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 36740 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20091020 NSOADV-2009-002: Websense Email Security Web Administrator DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-2987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 37091 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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-2009-3721 (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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