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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.0

CVE-2006-6425 in the critical feed json

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon (IMAPD) in Novell NetMail before 3.52e FTF2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arb…

published 2006-12-27 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6408

cvss
9.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
58.2%
EPSS 58.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99%
public exploits
2
Metasploit, Exploit-DB

Summary

Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP daemon (IMAPD) in Novell NetMail before 3.52e FTF2 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors involving the APPEND command.

Patch / fix

Timeline

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

Exploit prediction

58.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/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.