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CVE-2008-5839

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-5839 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Foxmail 6.5, allowing remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This high-severity flaw, with a CVSS score of 9.3, can be exploited with medium attack complexity by crafting a malicious mailto URI within an HTML A element. While not actively exploited in the wild and inactive on the CISA KEV catalog, a Proof-of-Concept exploit is publicly available on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
6.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:foxmail:foxmail:6.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

9.3HIGH

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

Confidentiality Impact
COMPLETE
Integrity Impact
COMPLETE
Availability Impact
COMPLETE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
10.0
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
5.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-32400 · Sep 22, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0557 is in the 62nd percentile among its peer group of 8,914 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/45343
sebug.net / exploit/4681
Exploit
securityfocus.com / bid/31294