Vulnerabilities > CVE-2007-5018 - Buffer Errors vulnerability in David Harris Mercury 32 4.5.2
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
SINGLE Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL Integrity impact
PARTIAL Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in IMAPD in Mercury/32 4.52 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument in a SEARCH ON command. NOTE: this issue might overlap with CVE-2004-1211.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
- Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables This attack pattern involves causing a buffer overflow through manipulation of environment variables. Once the attacker finds that they can modify an environment variable, they may try to overflow associated buffers. This attack leverages implicit trust often placed in environment variables.
- Overflow Buffers Buffer Overflow attacks target improper or missing bounds checking on buffer operations, typically triggered by input injected by an attacker. As a consequence, an attacker is able to write past the boundaries of allocated buffer regions in memory, causing a program crash or potentially redirection of execution as per the attackers' choice.
- Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow This type of attack exploits a buffer overflow vulnerability in targeted client software through injection of malicious content from a custom-built hostile service.
- Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow In this attack, the idea is to cause an active filter to fail by causing an oversized transaction. An attacker may try to feed overly long input strings to the program in an attempt to overwhelm the filter (by causing a buffer overflow) and hoping that the filter does not fail securely (i.e. the user input is let into the system unfiltered).
- MIME Conversion An attacker exploits a weakness in the MIME conversion routine to cause a buffer overflow and gain control over the mail server machine. The MIME system is designed to allow various different information formats to be interpreted and sent via e-mail. Attack points exist when data are converted to MIME compatible format and back.
Exploit-Db
| description | Mercury/32 4.52 IMAPD SEARCH command Post-Auth Overflow Exploit. CVE-2007-5018. Remote exploit for windows platform |
| file | exploits/windows/remote/4429.pl |
| id | EDB-ID:4429 |
| last seen | 2016-01-31 |
| modified | 2007-09-19 |
| platform | windows |
| port | 143 |
| published | 2007-09-19 |
| reporter | void |
| source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/4429/ |
| title | Mercury/32 4.52 IMAPD SEARCH command Post-Auth Overflow Exploit |
| type | remote |
Nessus
| NASL family | Gain a shell remotely |
| NASL id | MERCURY_IMAP_SEARCH_OVERFLOW.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running the Mercury Mail Transport System, a free suite of server products for Windows and NetWare associated with Pegasus Mail. The remote installation of Mercury Mail includes an IMAP server that is affected by a buffer overflow vulnerability. Using a specially- crafted SEARCH command, an authenticated, remote attacker can leverage this issue to crash the remote application and even execute arbitrary code remotely, subject to the privileges under which the application runs. |
| last seen | 2020-06-01 |
| modified | 2020-06-02 |
| plugin id | 26067 |
| published | 2007-09-20 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/26067 |
| title | Mercury IMAP Server SEARCH Command Remote Buffer Overflow |