CVE-2009-3749
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…
Does this matter?
A public exploit is published in Exploit-DB (verified), so the technical barrier is gone even though the severity is medium and EPSS is 7.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet.
Description
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.
- CVSS 2.0
- 5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- EPSS
- 7.64% probability · 95th percentile
- Public exploits
- 1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 20 October 2009
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Affected
- websense/email security · websense/personal email manager
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 7.6% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
Public exploits (1)
Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.
References
- http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12Patch
- http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37091Vendor Advisory
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txtExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987Vendor Advisory
- http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12Patch
- http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786Patch
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37091Vendor Advisory
- http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txtExploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740Exploit
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987Vendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.