CVE-2010-2580
The SMTP service (MESMTPC.exe) in MailEnable 3.x and 4.25 does not properly perform a length check, which allows remote attackers to cause…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 3.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 9.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
The SMTP service (MESMTPC.exe) in MailEnable 3.x and 4.25 does not properly perform a length check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long (1) email address in the MAIL FROM command, or (2) domain name in the RCPT TO command, which triggers an "unhandled invalid parameter error."
Timeline
ID reserved
By flexera
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 14 years later
· 14 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)
- 3.8% · top 9.8% of all CVEs (10 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
9
- http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1024427 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- 43182 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 20100913 Secunia Research: MailEnable SMTP Service Two Denial of Service Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/Professional-ReleaseNotes.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-112/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 41175 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/Enterprise-ReleaseNotes.txt (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-2010-2584 (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)
Badge for a README or a ticket
[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2010-2580)Record last updated .