CVE-2004-1211

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 72.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Multiple buffer overflows in the IMAP service in Mercury/32 4.01a allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) EXAMINE, (2) SUBSCRIBE, (3) STATUS, (4) APPEND, (5) CHECK, (6) CLOSE, (7) EXPUNGE, (8) FETCH, (9) RENAME, (10) DELETE, (11) LIST, (12) SEARCH, (13) CREATE, or (14) UNSUBSCRIBE commands.

Affected products

David Harris Mercury: 4.0.1a

References

http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jaabogae/han/m_401b.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-December/029701.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110193702909991&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13348
http://www.osvdb.org/12508
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/11775
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/18318
http://home.kabelfoon.nl/~jaabogae/han/m_401b.html
http://lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2004-December/029701.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=110193702909991&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/13348
http://www.osvdb.org/12508

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