Vulnerability in Mcafee Webshield Smtp
CVE-2006-0559
Format string vulnerability in the SMTP server for McAfee WebShield 4.5 MR2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format strings in the domain name portion of a destination address, which are not properly handled when a bounce message is constructed.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 10.0 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.061 (93.1th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 93rd percentile — 93.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.061 · newest: 0.061 · change: -0.000
Affected products
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/16742 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25621 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/24366 (vdb-entry)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/429812/100/0/threaded (mailing-list)
- securityreason.com/securityalert/671 (third-party-advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/19491 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/1219 (vdb-entry)