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CVE-2005-2472

24
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-2472 describes multiple buffer overflows in BusinessMail 4.60.00, specifically affecting netcplus businessmail. Remote attackers can exploit this vulnerability by sending excessively long strings to the SMTP HELO or MAIL FROM commands, leading to a denial of service through an application crash. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, with a network attack vector and low attack complexity, resulting in a partial availability impact. While not listed on the CISA KEV catalog, public exploit code is available on ExploitDB, though there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.60.00CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netcplus:businessmail:4.60.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.58%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1126 · Aug 1, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0458 is in the 87th percentile among its peer group of 23,690 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 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

lists.grok.org.uk / pipermail/full-disclosure/2005-August/035647.html
ExploitPatch
marc.info
reedarvin.thearvins.com / 20050730-01.html
ExploitPatch
secunia.com / advisories/16306
Vendor Advisory
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/21636
osvdb.org / 18407
securityfocus.com / bid/14434
Exploit