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CVE-2006-7038

20
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-7038 describes multiple buffer overflow vulnerabilities in MERCUR Messaging 2005 prior to Service Pack 4. Remote attackers can exploit these flaws by sending long command lines to port 32000 or crafting specific name service queries to the SMTP service, leading to a denial of service (crash). With a CVSS score of 7.8, this vulnerability is considered high severity, requiring no authentication and low attack complexity, with a critical impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0_sp3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:atrium_software:mercur_messaging_2005:5.0_sp3:*:enterprise:*:*:*:*:*
5.0_sp3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:atrium_software:mercur_messaging_2005:5.0_sp3:*:lite:*:*:*:*:*
5.0_sp3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:atrium_software:mercur_messaging_2005:5.0_sp3:*:standard:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

7.8HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
6.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.88%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0187 is in the 60th 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/20432
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27231
atrium-software.com / download/McrReadMe_EN.html
securityfocus.com / bid/18462
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2354