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CVE-2006-6291
Stack overflow in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.83 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable…
Medium6.8EPSS 3.2%
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Description
Stack overflow in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.83 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable Enterprise 1.1 through 1.40 and 2.0 through 2.33, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument containing * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) characters to the DELETE command, as addressed by the ME-10020 hotfix.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium6.8 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 3.2% · top 12% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.8.
Weakness
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (9)
- 1017276 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4778 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 23080 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 21362 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 1017319 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20061130 Secunia Research: MailEnable IMAP Service Two Vulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- mailenable-meimaps-bo(30614) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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