CVE-2005-3182

Mailsecurity vulnerability

CVSS

7.5

EPSS

4.0%

EPSS pct

89th

Exploited

No known

Buffer overflow in the HTTP management interface for GFI MailSecurity 8.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via long headers such as (1) Host and (2) Accept in HTTP requests. NOTE: the vendor suggests that this issues is "in an underlying Microsoft technology" which, if true, could mean that the overflow affects other products as well.

Affected vendor

Gfi

Affected product

Mailsecurity

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Published

2005-10-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 4.0% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2005-3182

Confirm whether Gfi Mailsecurity is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2005-3182.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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