{"id":"CVE-2008-5426","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2008-5426","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T19:38:55.218Z","title":"Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many \"Content-type: message/rfc822;\" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial…","description":"Kaspersky Internet Security Suite 2009 does not properly handle (1) multipart/mixed e-mail messages with many MIME parts and possibly (2) e-mail messages with many \"Content-type: message/rfc822;\" headers, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack consumption or other resource consumption) via a large e-mail message, a related issue to CVE-2006-1173.","published":"2008-12-11T15:30:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:59:57.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":4.3,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-399"],"affected":["kaspersky lab/kaspersky internet security suite"],"epss":{"score":0.01244,"percentile":0.69064,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://mime.recurity.com/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Main/AttackIntro","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4721","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499038/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/499045/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5426","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."}