Predictive Vulnerability Intelligence.

Product

  • Product
  • Pricing
  • Documentation

Company

  • About
  • Partnerships
  • Blog
  • Support

Legal

  • Terms
  • Privacy
  • Data Licensing

© 2026 FAUCET Technologies LLC. All rights reserved.

CVE-2006-5961

28
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-5961 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b for Windows. This flaw carries a CVSS score of 7.5, indicating high severity with potential for full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) via network-based attacks requiring low complexity. While no active exploitation is confirmed, an exploit for a similar IMAP buffer overflow in version 4.01a exists on ExploitDB, suggesting potential for exploitation. There is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
4.0.1bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pegasus:mercury_mail_transport_system:4.0.1b:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.13%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
80.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1223 · Sep 20, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0213 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 51,485 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, 0.1 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/22857
Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/21110
Exploit