Description
The IMAP service (MEIMAPS.exe) in MailEnable Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition 3.13 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via (1) SEARCH and (2) APPEND commands without required arguments, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference.
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 3.13 - IMAP Service Multiple Remote Vulnerabilities EDB-31360 · dos · Mar 7, 2008 · verified
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- 29277 third-party-advisory
- http://aluigi.altervista.org/adv/maildisable-adv.txt
- ADV-2008-0799 vdb-entry
- 3724 third-party-advisory
- 20080307 Multiple vulnerabilities in MailEnable Professional/Enterprise 3.13 mailing-list
- 1019565 vdb-entry
- 28145 vdb-entry
- mailenable-imapservice-dos(41059) vdb-entry