CVE-2009-3749 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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: 2009-10-22

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: 11.2% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:websense:email_security:7.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:websense:personal_email_manager:7.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

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No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.11159.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://kb.websense.com/article.aspx?article=4786&p=12
http://kb.websense.com/display/4/kb/article.aspx?aid=4786
http://secunia.com/advisories/37091
http://sotiriu.de/adv/NSOADV-2009-002.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/507329/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/36740
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2987

History

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Subscriptions

Websense Email Security Personal Email Manager

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-10-22T17:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T06:38:30.400Z

Reserved: 2009-10-22T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-3749

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-10-22T17:30:00.267

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-3749

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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