MailEnable WebMail Multiple Products Quoted Printable Mail DoS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 3482

Synopsis

The remote host is vulnerable to a Denial of Service (DoS) attack.

Description

The remote host is running a version of MailEnable's WebMail service that is prone to a remote Denial of Service (DoS) attack. Specifically, an attacker sending malformed web data can crash the service. An attacker exploiting this flaw would only need to be able to create and send a malformed email to a valid WebMail user. Successful exploitation leads to a loss of availability.

Solution

Upgrade to MailEnable Professional 1.73 or higher or to MailEnable Enterprise Edition 1.21 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 3482

Family: IMAP Servers

Published: 3/20/2006

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 21118

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 5.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mailenable:mailenable

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-1338

BID: 17161

Detections

Analytics