CVE-2006-5961

Exp

Buffer overflow in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.01b for Windows has unknown impact and attack vectors, as originally reported in a GLEG VulnDisco pack. NOTE: the provenance of this information is unknown; the details are obtained from third party information. The original researcher is reliable.

Published: 2006-11-17 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2006-5961 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.3/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 2.11%). 2 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). 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-2006-5961

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
1223 exploit_db edb 2005-09-20 Exploit-DB ↗
— nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5961

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 2026-06-15 2.61% 2.11% -0.50%
2 2025-07-06 2.15% 2.61% +0.46%
3 2025-03-30 — 2.15% —

Full EPSS history (9 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2006-5961

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.5 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/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:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 6.4 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2006-5961

OS Trackers for CVE-2006-5961

vendor priority summary link
alpine — CVE-2006-5961: no source package rows; 0 state rows across 0 repos (none); fixed 0, open 0. https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2006-5961

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2006-5961

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
pegasus mercury_mail_transport_system 4.0.1b cpe:2.3:a:pegasus:mercury_mail_transport_system:4.0.1b:*:windows:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2006-5961

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