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Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2004-2513 json

Buffer overflow in the IMAP service of Mercury (Pegasus) Mail 4.01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SELECT comm…

published 2004-12-31 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-2504

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
9.8%
EPSS 9.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 95%
public exploits
5
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the IMAP service of Mercury (Pegasus) Mail 4.01 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long SELECT command.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-663)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

9.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 95% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-4316 Mercury/32 Mail Server 3.32 < 4.51 - SMTP EIP Overwrite remote, 2007-08-26
  • EDB-1159 Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01a - 'check' Buffer Overflow dos, 2004-12-01
  • EDB-670 Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (2) remote, 2004-12-01
  • EDB-668 Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (1) remote, 2004-11-30
  • EDB-663 Mercury/32 Mail Server 4.01 - 'Pegasus' IMAP Buffer Overflow (3) remote, 2004-11-29

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 10.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

References

Sources

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