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CVE-2004-2401

25
FAUCET Score

CVE-2004-2401 describes a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in Ipswitch IMail Express Web Messaging versions prior to 8.05. This flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by sending an HTML message containing excessively long "tag text." With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is considered highly severe, requiring no authentication and allowing for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise. Despite its age and high FAUCET Risk Score of 86/100, there is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there known public exploits in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, though it has garnered some community discussion.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.03CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:imail_express:8.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.5HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
3.53%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
88.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0353 is in the 79th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

secunia.com / advisories/11352
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/15841
support.ipswitch.com / kb/IM-20031219-DF01.htm
osvdb.org / 5243
Patch
securityfocus.com / bid/10106
Patch