MailEnable Professional up to 1.6 IMAP Service meimaps.exe Name path traversal

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in MailEnable Professional up to 1.6. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file meimaps.exe of the component IMAP Service. Performing a manipulation of the argument Name results in path traversal. This vulnerability is cataloged as CVE-2005-3691. There is no exploit available. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MailEnable Professional up to 1.6 (Mail Server Software). It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown functionality of the file meimaps.exe of the component IMAP Service. The manipulation of the argument name with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Directory traversal vulnerability in the IMAP service (meimaps.exe) of MailEnable Professional 1.6 and earlier and Enterprise 1.1 and earlier allows remote attackers to create or rename arbitrary mail directories via the mailbox name argument of the (1) create or (2) rename commands.

The bug was discovered 11/07/2005. The weakness was shared 11/18/2005 by Tan Chew Keong (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at mailenable.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2005-3691 since 11/19/2005. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1006 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 11 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 20226 (MailEnable < 1.7 IMAP Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (ME-100008)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Windows and running in the context r.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (20226), SecurityFocus (BID 15494†), OSVDB (20931†), Secunia (SA17633†) and SecurityTracker (ID 1015239†). The entries VDB-2707, VDB-2728, VDB-2727 and VDB-2767 are related to this item. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Path traversal
CWE: CWE-22
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Status: Proof-of-Concept

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Nessus ID: 20226
Nessus Name: MailEnable < 1.7 IMAP Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (ME-100008)
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: mailenable.com
Researcher: Tan Chew Keong
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2005-3691 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2005-3691
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-26979
SecurityFocus: 15494 - MailEnable IMAP Command Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Secunia: 17633 - MailEnable Buffer Overflow and Directory Traversal Vulnerabilities, Moderately Critical
OSVDB: 20931 - MailEnable IMAP Service (MEIMAP.EXE) rename Command Traversal Arbitrary Directory Modification
SecurityTracker: 1015239
Vulnerability Center: 9698 - MailEnable IMAP Server Directory Traversal \x26 DoS, High
Vupen: ADV-2005-2484

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Entryinfo

Created: 03/11/2015 23:39
Updated: 06/11/2019 16:25
Changes: 03/11/2015 23:39 (70), 06/11/2019 16:25 (13)
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Cache ID: 216:5C3:103

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