ISC INN 1.5.1 ucbmail Metacharacter privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in ISC INN 1.5.1. Affected is an unknown function of the component ucbmail. The manipulation as part of Metacharacter leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-1999-0868. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in ISC INN 1.5.1. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component ucbmail. The manipulation as part of a Metacharacter leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

ucbmail allows remote attackers to execute commands via shell metacharacters that are passed to it from inn.

The weakness was shared 02/20/1997. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-1999-0868. The exploitation is known to be easy. Attacking locally is a requirement. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 11435 (Microsoft ActiveSync WideCharToMultiByte() Function NULL Dereference Remote DoS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (3701), Tenable (11435), SecurityFocus (BID 687†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-560†). The entry VDB-88436 is related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
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Nessus ID: 11435
Nessus Name: Microsoft ActiveSync WideCharToMultiByte() Function NULL Dereference Remote DoS
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Recommended: Upgrade
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02/20/1997 +78 days 🔍
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12/29/2002 +2138 days 🔍
06/17/2014 +4188 days 🔍
06/23/2021 +2563 days 🔍

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Vendor: isc.org

Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-1999-0868 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-1999-0868
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-13859
X-Force: 3701
SecurityFocus: 687
Vulnerability Center: 560 - Multiple Vendor INN Daemon Arbitrary Command Execution, High

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Entryinfo

Created: 06/18/2014 00:59
Updated: 06/23/2021 03:59
Changes: 06/18/2014 00:59 (57), 10/11/2016 18:02 (2), 06/23/2021 03:59 (4)
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