Description
IMAP service (meimaps.exe) of MailEnable Professional 1.7 and Enterprise 1.1 allows remote authenticated attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) by using RENAME with a non-existent mailbox, a different vulnerability than CVE-2005-3690.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- MailEnable 1.1/1.7 - IMAP Rename Request Remote Denial of Service EDB-26575 · dos · Nov 23, 2005 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 205 third-party-advisory
- 20051124 MailEnable IMAP DOS mailing-list
- 20051124 MailEnable IMAP DOS mailing-list
- 15556 vdb-entry
- 1015268 vdb-entry
- http://zur.homelinux.com/Advisories/MailEnableImapDos.txt
- 17740 third-party-advisory
- 21109 vdb-entry
- ADV-2005-2579 vdb-entry