MailMarshal < 6.4 Spam Quarantine Management XSS

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 4697

Synopsis

The remote host has an application that is affected by a cross-site scripting vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running MailMarshal SMTP, a mail server for Windows. The Spam Quarantine Management web component included with the version of MailMarshal SMTP installed on the remote host is affected by a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in its 'delegated spam management' feature. By exploiting this issue, it may be possible for an internal user to install a malicious program on another internal user's (victim) computer, steal session cookies or launch similar attacks. Successful exploitation would require a victim to accept an email invitation for delegated spam management from an attacker.

Solution

Upgrade to version 6.4 or higher.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 4697

Family: SMTP Servers

Published: 9/30/2008

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 34336

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:mailmarshal:smtp

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-2831

BID: 31483

Detections

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