CVE-2009-3749: Websense Email Security

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 7.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Web Administrator service (STEMWADM.EXE) in Websense Personal Email Manager 7.1 before Hotfix 4 and Email Security 7.1 before Hotfix 4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending a HTTP GET request to TCP port 8181 and closing the socket before the service can send a response.

Affected products

  • Websense Email Security: version 7.1 only
  • Websense Personal Email Manager: version 7.1 only

Published 2009-10-22. Last modified 2026-06-16.