Vulnerability in Clearswift Mailsweeper For Exchange
CVE-2006-3216
Clearswift MAILsweeper for SMTP before 4.3.20 and MAILsweeper for Exchange before 4.3.20 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via (1) non-ASCII characters in a reverse DNS lookup result from a Received header, which leads to a Receiver service stop, and (2) unspecified vectors involving malformed messages, which causes "unpredictable behavior" that prevents the Security service from processing more messages.
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CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 5.0 (Medium). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.019 (78.4th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 78th percentile — 78.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27305 (vdb-entry)
- www.osvdb.org/26739 (vdb-entry)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27303 (vdb-entry)
- download.mimesweeper.com/www/TechnicalDocumentation/ReadMe_MSW_4,3,20.htm
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/18584 (Patch, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/20756 (Patch, Vendor Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.osvdb.org/26738 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2473 (vdb-entry)