MailEnable Professional Edition/Enterprise Edition HTTPMail memory corruption

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A vulnerability was found in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition (Mail Server Software) (the affected version is unknown) and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component HTTPMail. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Buffer overflow in HTTPMail in MailEnable Enterprise 1.04 and earlier and Professional 1.54 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long HTTP Authorization header.

The bug was discovered 04/21/2005. The weakness was published 04/24/2005 by Corry L. (CorryL) as confirmed posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1348 since 04/28/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at x0n3-h4ck.org. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 4 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 18123 (MailEnable HTTPMail Service Authorization Header Remote Overflow), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 4637. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 3691.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (20234), Tenable (18123) and Exploit-DB (952). Similar entry is available at 82426.

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Class: Memory corruption
CWE: CWE-119
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Access: Public
Status: Highly functional
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Nessus ID: 18123
Nessus Name: MailEnable HTTPMail Service Authorization Header Remote Overflow
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Saint ID: exploit_info/mailenable_httpmail_authorization
Saint Name: MailEnable HTTPMail Authorization header buffer overflow

MetaSploit ID: mailenable_auth_header.rb
MetaSploit Name: MailEnable Authorization Header Buffer Overflow
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Snort ID: 4637
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: marc.theaimsgroup.com
Researcher: Corry L. (CorryL)
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2005-1348 (🔍)
X-Force: 20234
SecurityTracker: 1013786
Vulnerability Center: 7721 - Buffer Overflow in MailEnable Enterprise <= 1.04 and Professional <= 1.54 via HTTP Authorization, High
SecurityFocus: 13350 - MailEnable HTTP Authorization Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
OSVDB: 15913 - MailEnable HTTPS Authorization: Field Remote Overflow

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 07/05/2021 08:09
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (93), 07/09/2019 07:54 (4), 07/05/2021 08:09 (3)
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