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CVE-2005-4402

27
FAUCET Score

CVE-2005-4402 describes a buffer overflow vulnerability affecting MailEnable Professional 1.71 and earlier, and Enterprise 1.1 and earlier. An authenticated remote attacker can exploit this by sending a specially crafted, long IMAP EXAMINE command, leading to arbitrary code execution. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a medium severity, with low attack complexity and potential for partial compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed on the KEV catalog, public exploit code exists on ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 1.71CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
4.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
90.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-1378 · Dec 19, 2005
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0434 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 21,958 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, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 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

marc.info
securitytracker.com / alerts/2005/Dec/1015378.html
mailenable.com / hotfix
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2005/2988