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CVE-2005-4209

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4209 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in Alt-N MDaemon WorldClient 8.1.3, where remote attackers can prevent users from accessing their inboxes by injecting script tags into email subject headers. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.3, indicating a medium severity, and allows an unauthenticated attacker to cause a partial denial of service with moderate attack complexity. While there is an ExploitDB entry for a denial-of-service exploit, there is no evidence of active exploitation, Metasploit or Nuclei modules, or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
8.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:alt-n:mdaemon:8.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
8.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:alt-n:worldclient:8.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

4.3MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.1%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-26779 · Dec 12, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 67th percentile among its peer group of 19,954 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, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 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

secunia.com / advisories/17990
ExploitVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/23551
ipomonis.com / advisories/mdaemon.zip
securityfocus.com / bid/15815
Exploit