CVE-2002-2357

Exp

MailEnable 1.5 015 through 1.5 018 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long USER string, possibly due to a buffer overflow.

Published: 2002-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2002-2357 is rated High Exploit Risk (67.6/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.35%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +2.18% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2002-2357

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
22023 exploit_db edb 2002-11-18 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2002-2357

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-08-21 1.17% 3.35% +2.18%
2 2025-08-17 1.41% 1.17% -0.24%
3 2025-03-30 — 1.41% —

Full EPSS history (17 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2002-2357

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2002-2357

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2002-2357

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mailenable mailenable 1.5015 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5015:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable 1.5016 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5016:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable 1.5017 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable 1.5018 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5018:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2002-2357

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