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CVE-2008-2859

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2008-2859 describes an unspecified vulnerability in the IMAP service of NetWin SurgeMail versions prior to 3.9g2, which can lead to a denial of service by crashing the daemon. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.0, indicating a medium severity, and can be exploited remotely without authentication, resulting in a partial impact on availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, a proof-of-concept for an authenticated IMAP remote buffer overflow (DoS) exists on ExploitDB, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 3.9gCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgemail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8aCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgemail:3.8a:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8bCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgemail:3.8b:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8dCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgemail:3.8d:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.8fCPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:netwin:surgemail:3.8f:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
3.38%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
87.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-5968 · Jun 30, 2008
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0338 is in the 83rd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 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

secunia.com / advisories/30739
Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/43171
netwinsite.com / surgemail/help/updates.htm
securityfocus.com / bid/29805
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2008/1874/references