CVE-2006-4616

SMTP service in MailEnable Standard, Professional, and Enterprise before ME-10014 (20060904) allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via an SPF lookup for a domain with a large number of records, which triggers a null pointer exception.

Published: 2006-09-07 Last update: 2026-04-16 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2006-4616 is rated Moderate Risk (51.4/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.98%). Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-4616

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 2025-10-01 4.80% 4.98% +0.18%
2 2025-04-26 5.03% 4.80% -0.23%
3 2025-03-30 5.03%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-4616

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-2006-4616

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-4616

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mailenable mailenable_enterprise cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable_professional cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable_standard cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_standard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-4616

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