CVE-2008-1277

Published: Mar 10, 2008Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-20

9.0CRITICAL

NVD MITRE

Description

The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) SEARCH and (2) APPEND commands without required arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:SAuthentication

Single

Impact

C:CConfidentiality

Complete

I:CIntegrity

Complete

A:CAvailability

Complete

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Weaknesses

CWE-20

Affected Products

mailenable

commercial·AUaka mail enable

mailenable enterpriseOn-premWeb App

Communications / email-server-client

mailenable professionalOn-premWeb App

Communications / email-server-client

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Exploitability

1 exploit source identified

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MITRE ATT&CK

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References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/maildisable-adv.txt

aluigi.altervista.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/29277

secunia.com

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3724

securityreason.com

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