Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 10.0

CVE-2006-6423 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service for MailEnable Professional and Enterprise Edition 2.0 through 2.35, Professional Edition 1…

published 2006-12-12 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6406

cvss
10.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
70.7%
EPSS 70.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.4%
public exploits
4
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service for MailEnable Professional and Enterprise Edition 2.0 through 2.35, Professional Edition 1.6 through 1.84, and Enterprise Edition 1.1 through 1.41 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a pre-authentication command followed by a crafted parameter and a long string, as addressed by the ME-10025 hotfix.

Patch / fix

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit exploit/windows/imap/mailenable_login)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

70.71% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • Metasploit exploit/windows/imap/mailenable_login MailEnable IMAPD (2.34/2.35) Login Request Buffer Overflow metasploit exploit, great rank, 2006-12-11
  • EDB-16475 MailEnable IMAPD Professional (2.35) - Login Request Buffer Overflow (Metasploit) remote, 2010-04-30
  • EDB-3320 MailEnable IMAPD Professional 2.35 - Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-02-16
  • EDB-3319 MailEnable IMAPD Enterprise 2.32 < 2.34 - Remote Buffer Overflow remote, 2007-02-16

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

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.