CVE-2008-1275

Exp

Multiple unspecified vulnerabilities in the SMTP service in MailEnable Standard Edition 1.x, Professional Edition 3.x and earlier, and Enterprise Edition 3.x and earlier allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted (1) EXPN or (2) VRFY commands.

Published: 2008-03-10 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-1275 is rated High Exploit Risk (72.4/100): CVSS High severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 4.04%). Core evidence: 1 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-2008-1275

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
5235 exploit_db edb 2008-03-11 Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1275

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 13.54% 4.04% -9.49%
2 2026-06-09 33.09% 13.54% -19.55%
3 2025-11-27 33.09%

Full EPSS history (16 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-1275

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
7.8 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C 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:C)
Complete availability impact.
10.0 6.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-1275

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-1275

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mailenable mailenable_enterprise <= 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable_professional <= 3.0 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable_standard cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_standard:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-1275

cvelogic Threat Intelligence