CVE-2008-7105

Puremessage For Microsoft Exchange vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

3.3%

EPSS pct

87th

Exploited

No known

Sophos PureMessage for Microsoft Exchange 3.0 before 3.0.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (EdgeTransport.exe termination) via a TNEF-encoded message with a crafted rich text body that is not properly handled during conversion to plain text. NOTE: this might be related to CVE-2008-7104.

Affected vendor

Sophos

Affected product

Puremessage For Microsoft Exchange

CVSS vector

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

Published

2009-08-27

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 availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.3% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-7105

Confirm whether Sophos Puremessage For Microsoft Exchange is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-7105.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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