MailEnable Professional up to 1.54 denial of service

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in MailEnable Professional 1.5/1.51/1.52/1.53/1.54. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality. Such manipulation leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2005-1781. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MailEnable Professional 1.5/1.51/1.52/1.53/1.54 (Mail Server Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Unknown vulnerability in SMTP authentication for MailEnable allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash).

The weakness was presented 05/31/2005 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2005-1781 since 05/31/2005. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

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 Secunia (SA15487†). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Type

• Mail Server Software

Vendor

• MailEnable

Name

• Professional

Version

• 1.5
• 1.51
• 1.52
• 1.53
• 1.54

License

• commercial

CPE 2.3info

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CPE 2.2info

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CVSSv4info

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.3

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.3
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Denial of service
CWE: CWE-404
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined

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Saint ID: exploit_info/mailenable_smtp_auth_login
Saint Name: MailEnable SMTP AUTH LOGIN buffer overflow

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
Status: 🔍

0-Day Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

05/26/2005 🔍
05/31/2005 +5 days 🔍
05/31/2005 +0 days 🔍
05/31/2005 +0 days 🔍
03/11/2015 +3571 days 🔍
07/09/2019 +1581 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2005-1781 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-1781
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-25388
Secunia: 15487 - MailEnable Unspecified SMTP Authentication Denial of Service, Moderately Critical

Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 11:41
Updated: 07/09/2019 07:55
Changes: 03/11/2015 11:41 (46), 07/09/2019 07:55 (7)
Complete: 🔍
Cache ID: 216::103

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