CVE-2004-1211: David Harris Mercury

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 72.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple buffer overflows in the IMAP service in Mercury/32 4.01a allow remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (application crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via long arguments to the (1) EXAMINE, (2) SUBSCRIBE, (3) STATUS, (4) APPEND, (5) CHECK, (6) CLOSE, (7) EXPUNGE, (8) FETCH, (9) RENAME, (10) DELETE, (11) LIST, (12) SEARCH, (13) CREATE, or (14) UNSUBSCRIBE commands.

Affected products

• David Harris Mercury: version 4.0.1a only

Published 2005-01-10. Last modified 2026-06-16.