{"id":"CVE-2008-4041","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-4041","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:30:21.710Z","title":"The IMAP server in Softalk Mail Server (formerly WorkgroupMail) 8.5.1.431 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and daemon crash) via a long IMAP APPEND command with certain repeated parameters.","description":"The IMAP server in Softalk Mail Server (formerly WorkgroupMail) 8.5.1.431 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource consumption and daemon crash) via a long IMAP APPEND command with certain repeated parameters.","published":"2008-09-11T21:06:48.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:57:03.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["softalk mail server/softalk mail server"],"epss":{"score":0.02348,"percentile":0.83563,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2008-09-02","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":32310,"kind":"exploit","title":"Softalk Mail Server 8.5.1 - 'APPEND' Remote Denial of Service","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/32310","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/multiple/dos/32310.txt","file":"exploits/multiple/dos/32310.txt","published":"2008-09-02","added":"2008-09-02","updated":"2014-03-17","author":"Antunes","type":"dos","platform":"multiple","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2008-4041","OSVDB-47886"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":"https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970/info"}]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 2.3%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31715","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4238","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44862","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/31715","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4238","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44862","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4041","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}