Ability Mail Server < 2.70 Remote Denial of Service

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5185

Synopsis

The remote mail server is affected by a denial of service vulnerability.

Description

The remote host appears to be running Ability Mail Server < 2.70. Such versions are potentially affected by an issue caused by an unspecified error when handling IMAP version 4 FETCH commands. An attacker could exploit this flaw to crash the affected service.

Solution

Upgrade to Ability Mail Server 2.70 or later.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5185

Family: SMTP Servers

Published: 9/25/2009

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 41644

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:code-crafters:ability_mail_server

Patch Publication Date: 9/25/2009

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/25/2009

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-3445

BID: 36519

Detections

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