The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause…

published 2008-03-10 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-1285

cvss: 9.0; version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 8.3%; EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits: 1; Exploit-DB

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.

Timeline

2008-03-07 First public exploit (EDB-31360)
2008-03-10 Published

Exploit prediction

8.25% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

EDB-31360 MailEnable 3.13 - IMAP Service Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities dos, 2008-03-07
securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28145 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

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

Classification

Weakness

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

securityfocus.com /bid/28145
vdb-entry, exploit
secunia.com /advisories/29277
third-party-advisory, vendor-advisory
aluigi.altervista.org /adv/maildisable-adv.txt
vupen.com /english/advisories/2008/0799/references
vdb-entry
securityreason.com /securityalert/3724
third-party-advisory
securityfocus.com /archive/1/489270/100/0/threaded
mailing-list
securitytracker.com /id?1019565
vdb-entry
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com /vulnerabilities/41059
vdb-entry

Sources

CVE List CVE-2008-1277
NVD CVE-2008-1277

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Summary