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medium 4.0

CVE-2008-7182 json

Buffer overflow in the IMAP service in NetWin Surgemail 3.9e, and possibly other versions before 3.9g2, allows remote authenticated users t…

published 2009-09-08 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-7141

cvss
4.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
24.3%
EPSS 24.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Buffer overflow in the IMAP service in NetWin Surgemail 3.9e, and possibly other versions before 3.9g2, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a long first argument to the APPEND command, a different vector than CVE-2008-1497 and CVE-2008-1498. NOTE: due to lack of details, it is not certain whether this is the same issue as CVE-2008-2859.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-5968)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

24.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-5968 Surgemail 39e-1 - (Authenticated) IMAP Remote Buffer Overflow (Denial of Service) (PoC) dos, 2008-06-30
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30000 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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