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CVE-2005-2278· NVD / CVE Program· CNA mitre

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon (imapd) in MailEnable Professional 1.54 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrar

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon (imapd) in MailEnable Professional 1.54 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via the status command with a long mailbox name.

HighCVSS 7.2 · v2.0—Weaponized No fix recorded
Published
Jul 18, 2005
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
84.6% · 100th percentile
CWE
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Action score

53

Plan

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CVSS
28 / 40 · 7.2 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
25 / 30 · 84.6%

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Affected systems

VendorProduct
mailenablemailenable professional

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • mailenable mailenable professional1.54

Same product

mailenable: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2005-2222Unknown vulnerability in the HTTPMail service in MailEnable Professional before 1.6 has unknown impact and attack vectors.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2005-2223Unknown vulnerability in the SMTP service in MailEnable Standard before 1.9 and Professional before 1.6 allows remote attackers to cause a d
    35Monitor
  • CVE-2006-0503IMAP service in MailEnable Professional Edition before 1.72 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (service crash) via unspeci
    21Monitor
  • CVE-2007-0652Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in MailEnable Professional before 2.37 allows remote attackers to modify arbitrary configura
    20Monitor
  • CVE-2007-0651Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MailEnable Professional before 2.37 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary Javasc
    18Monitor
  • CVE-2006-6964MailEnable Professional before 1.78 provides a cleartext user password when an administrator edits the user's settings, which allows remote
    16Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Weaponized

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Evidence

  • Metasploit module ×1
  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entryremote2010-04-30
Metasploit moduleexploit/windows/imap/mailenable_statusMailEnable IMAPD (1.54) STATUS Request Buffer Overflowexploit2005-07-13

Research context

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Timeline

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  1. Metasploit-5 d
  2. Published
  3. First PoC+1747 d
  4. TodayOct 9, 2026+7754 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

  • No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality
C · data can be read
Integrity
C · data or configuration can be modified
Availability
C · the service can be disrupted
Attack complexity
Low
Confidentiality impact
C
Integrity impact
C
Availability impact
C

Weakness class (CWE)

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CVSS vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

nvd-primary

Attack context

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Change log

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References

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