CVE-2004-2727

Exp

Buffer overflow in MEHTTPS (HTTPMail) of MailEnable Professional 1.5 through 1.7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) via a long HTTP GET request.

Published: 2004-12-31 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2004-2727 is rated High Exploit Risk (63.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.40%). Core evidence: 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). Mandatory action: 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-2004-2727

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
24103 exploit_db edb 2004-05-09 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2004-2727

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 2026-05-28 4.62% 4.40% -0.21%
2 2025-08-02 2.88% 4.62% +1.74%
3 2025-07-28 2.88%

Full EPSS history (15 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2004-2727

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/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:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
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.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2004-2727

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2004-2727

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mailenable mailenable 1.5 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable 1.6 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable 1.7 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:1.7:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2004-2727

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