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CVE-2002-2357

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2002-2357 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting MailEnable versions 1.5 015 through 1.5 018, where a remote attacker can crash the server by sending an excessively long USER string, likely due to a buffer overflow. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and a potential impact of partial availability loss. While not listed on CISA's KEV catalog, exploit code is publicly available on ExploitDB, and the CVE has garnered significant community discussion, suggesting awareness and potential for exploitation.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.5015CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5016CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5017CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.5018CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5018:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
2.99%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
85.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-22023 · Nov 18, 2002
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0299 is in the 80th percentile among its peer group of 23,701 CVEs.

Social Chatter

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

archives.neohapsis.com / archives/bugtraq/2002-11/0236.html
iss.net / security_center/static/10652.php
securityfocus.com / bid/6197
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