Metamail vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product2 versions
The short answer

Metamail is made by Metamail Corporation. We track 7 published vulnerabilities in it, across 2 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Metamail, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Which Metamail vulnerabilities are being exploited?

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None of Metamail's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Metamail flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

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  1. 26%

    Multiple format string vulnerabilities in Metamail 2.7 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

    CVSS7.5Published3 Mar 2004
  2. 8.2%

    Multiple buffer overflows in Metamail 2.7 and earlier allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.

    CVSS7.5Published3 Mar 2004
  3. 6.4%

    Buffer overflow in Metamail 2.7-50 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via e-mail messages with a long boundary attribute, a different...

    CVSS7.5Published15 Feb 2006
  4. 1.6%

    Buffer overflow in Rainbow Six Multiplayer allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, and possibly execute arbitrary commands, via a long nickname (nick) command.

    CVSS5.0Published24 Oct 1997
  5. 1.3%

    rsh daemon (rshd) generates different error messages when a valid username is provided versus an invalid name, which allows remote attackers to determine valid users on the system.

    CVSS5.0Published13 Jun 1997
  6. 1.0%

    Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by...

    CVSS2.6Published15 Aug 2003
  7. 0.3%

    Extcompose in metamail does not verify the output file before writing to it, which allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack.

    CVSS2.1Published31 Dec 2004
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We track 7 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Metamail, across 2 versions.

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