CVE-2008-1277

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 8.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-03-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) SEARCH and (2) APPEND commands without required arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Mailenable Enterprise: through 3.13
Mailenable Professional: through 3.13

References

http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/maildisable-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29277
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3724
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489270/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28145
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019565
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0799/references
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41059
http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/maildisable-adv.txt
http://secunia.com/advisories/29277
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3724
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/489270/100/0/threaded

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