CVE-2010-2580

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-09-15 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The SMTP service (MESMTPC.exe) in MailEnable 3.x and 4.25 does not properly perform a length check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long (1) email address in the MAIL FROM command, or (2) domain name in the RCPT TO command, which triggers an "unhandled invalid parameter error."

Affected products

MailEnable: through 4.25; 4.0, 4.1, 4.01, 4.11, 4.12, 4.13 (+25)

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/41175
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-112/
http://www.mailenable.com/Enterprise-ReleaseNotes.txt
http://www.mailenable.com/Professional-ReleaseNotes.txt
http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt
http://www.mailenable.com/hotfix/
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/513648/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/43182
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024427
http://secunia.com/advisories/41175
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2010-112/
http://www.mailenable.com/Enterprise-ReleaseNotes.txt

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