The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4…

Description

The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a HTTP GET request to TCP port 8181 and closing the socket before the service can send a response.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

7.6% · top 5.4% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 36740 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20091020 NSOADV-2009-002: Websense Email Security Web Administrator DoS (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• ADV-2009-2987 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 37091 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_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)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2009-3749](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2009-3749.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2009-3749)

Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 06:38 UTC.