Vulnerability in Pmail Mercury Mail Transport System

CVE-2007-1373

Stack-based buffer overflow in Mercury/32 (aka Mercury Mail Transport System) 4.01b and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long LOGIN command. NOTE: this might be the same issue as CVE-2006-5961.

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: 0.602 (99.1th percentile), scored .

High probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — patch promptly. 99th percentile — 99.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS trend (30 days)EPSS over the last 30 days for CVE-2007-1373: rose from 0.587 to 0.602.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.587 · newest: 0.602 · change: +0.015

Affected products

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2007-1373?
CVE-2007-1373 is a vulnerability in Pmail Mercury Mail Transport System. Published 2007-03-10.
Is CVE-2007-1373 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.