XMail < 1.27 Insecure Temporary File Creation

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5347

Synopsis

The remote SMTP server is vulnerable to a symlink attack.

Description

The remote mail server is running a version of XMail earlier than 1.27. Such versions are potentially affected by a flaw that may allow an attacker with local access to the host to delete or corrupt arbitrary files, due to the application creating temporary files in an insecure manner.

Solution

Upgrade to XMail 1.27 or later.

See Also

http://www.xmailserver.org/ChangeLog.html#feb_25__2010_v_1_27

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5347

Family: SMTP Servers

Published: 3/1/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 44942

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.7

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Patch Publication Date: 2/25/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/25/2010

Reference Information

BID: 38427