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CVE-2009-3749

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 7.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2009-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a HTTP GET request to TCP port 8181 and closing the socket before the service can send a response.

Affected products

• Websense Email Security: 7.1
• Websense Personal Email Manager: 7.1

References

• http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12
• http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37091
• http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987
• http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12
• http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786
• http://secunia.com/advisories/37091
• http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded

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