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CVE-2005-2278

80
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2278 describes a stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon of MailEnable Professional 1.54. This vulnerability allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code by sending a crafted status command with an excessively long mailbox name. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is considered highly severe, enabling full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability with low attack complexity. While not on the KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available via Metasploit, indicating a clear path for exploitation, despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.54CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_professional:1.54:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.2HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
84.64%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: MailEnable IMAPD (1.54) STATUS Request Buffer Overflow · Jul 13, 2005
ExploitDB: EDB-16485 · Apr 30, 2010
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.8464 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 3,235 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.5 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

marc.info
coresecurity.com / common/showdoc.php
ExploitPatchVendor Advisory