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CVE-2006-3216

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-3216 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP and MAILsweeper for Exchange versions prior to 4.3.20. Attackers can exploit this by sending non-ASCII characters in reverse DNS lookup results within a Received header, causing the Receiver service to stop, or by sending malformed messages that lead to unpredictable behavior and prevent the Security service from processing further messages. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity, resulting in partial availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 4.3.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper_for_exchange:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 4.3.19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:clearswift:mailsweeper_for_smtp:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
77.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0186 is in the 64th percentile among its peer group of 23,725 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 0.4 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

download.mimesweeper.com / www/TechnicalDocumentation/ReadMe_MSW_4%2C3%2C20.htm
secunia.com / advisories/20756
PatchVendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27303
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/27305
osvdb.org / 26738
osvdb.org / 26739
securityfocus.com / bid/18584
Patch
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/2473