CVE-2005-2857 describes a critical vulnerability in SoftStack Free SMTP Server 2.2, allowing remote attackers to exploit the server as an open mail relay, effectively turning it into a spam proxy. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity and no authentication required, leading to potential compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on the KEV catalog, an ExploitDB entry exists (EDB-1193), indicating public exploit code availability, though it has garnered minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:softstack:free_smtp_server:2.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
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 records are not available for this CVE.