CVE-2006-6291
Stack overflow in the IMAP module (MEIMAPS.EXE) in MailEnable Professional 1.6 through 1.83 and 2.0 through 2.33, and MailEnable Enterprise 1.1 through 1.40 and 2.0 through 2.33, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long argument containing * (asterisk) and ? (question mark) characters to the DELETE command, as addressed by the ME-10020 hotfix.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 3.2% (88th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6274)
- Published
- December 5, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6274 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mailenable / mailenable
- mailenable / mailenable
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23080(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-71/advisory/(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017276(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017319(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/453118/100/100/threaded(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21362(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4778(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30614(VDB Entry)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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