CVE-2008-1277

Exp

The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) SEARCH and (2) APPEND commands without required arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.

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

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2008-1277 is rated High Exploit Risk (81/100): CVSS Critical severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 5.19%). 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-2008-1277

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
31360 exploit_db edb 2008-03-07 Exploit-DB ↗
nvd_ref exploit_tag Exploit-DB ↗

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-1277

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 2025-12-28 6.50% 5.19% -1.30%
2 2025-04-30 6.07% 6.50% +0.43%
3 2025-03-30 6.07%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-1277

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
9.0 2.0 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/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:S)
A single authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:C)
Complete confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:C)
Complete integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:C)
Complete availability impact.
8.0 10.0 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-1277

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-1277

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mailenable mailenable_enterprise <= 3.13 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_enterprise:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mailenable mailenable_professional <= 3.13 cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable_professional:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-1277

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