CA InoculateIT Agent for Exchange SMTP Header from privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability has been found in CA InoculateIT Agent for Exchange and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component SMTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument from leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2000-1244. Furthermore, there is an exploit available.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in CA InoculateIT Agent for Exchange (the affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown part of the component SMTP Header Handler. The manipulation of the argument from with an unknown input 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:

Computer Associates InoculateIT Agent for Exchange Server does not recognize an e-mail virus attachment if the SMTP header is missing the "From" field, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus protection.

The weakness was shared 12/31/2000 as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared at archives.neohapsis.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2000-1244 since 10/17/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. We expect the 0-day to have been worth approximately $5k-$25k.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (20401). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.6

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Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Timelineinfo

12/31/2000 🔍
12/31/2000 +0 days 🔍
10/17/2007 +2481 days 🔍
07/02/2014 +2450 days 🔍
03/22/2025 +3916 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ca.com

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2000-1244 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2000-1244
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-16229
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013

Entryinfo

Created: 07/02/2014 12:01
Updated: 03/22/2025 18:40
Changes: 07/02/2014 12:01 (38), 04/06/2019 16:18 (10), 03/22/2025 18:40 (27)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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