{"id":"CVE-2009-3749","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2009-3749","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T20:39:49.288Z","title":"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…","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.","published":"2009-10-22T17:30:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:12:17.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":[],"affected":["websense/email security","websense/personal email manager"],"epss":{"score":0.07641,"percentile":0.94532,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":1,"verified":true,"firstPublished":"2009-10-20","source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[{"edbId":9980,"kind":"exploit","title":"Websense Email Security - Denial of Service","url":"https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/9980","sourceUrl":"https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb/-/blob/main/exploits/hardware/dos/9980.txt","file":"exploits/hardware/dos/9980.txt","published":"2009-10-20","added":"2009-10-19","updated":null,"author":"Nikolas Sotiriu","type":"dos","platform":"hardware","port":null,"verified":true,"codes":["CVE-2009-3749","OSVDB-59072"],"tags":null,"aliases":null,"applicationUrl":null,"screenshotUrl":null,"referenceUrl":null}]},"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 7.6%. Treat it as high on anything reachable from the internet."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786","tags":["Patch"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/37091","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786","tags":["Patch"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/37091","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2009-3749","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."}