16805 : Ipswitch IMail Web Calendaring Server GET Request Traversal Arbitrary File Access
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Views This Week	Views All Time	Added to OSVDB	Last Modified	Modified (since 2008)	Percent Complete
9	686	over 6 years ago	about 1 year ago	3 times	100%

Timeline

Discovery Date	Vendor Informed Date	Vendor Ack Date	Disclosure Date	Exploit Publish Date
2005-04-25	2005-04-25	2005-05-10	2005-05-24	2005-05-24

Time to Exploit	Time to Vendor Response
29 days	15 days

Description

The Web Calendaring component in IMail Server contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to access arbitrary files. The issue occurs when requesting nonexistent JavaScript (*.jsp) files followed by traversal style attacks (../../) resulting in a loss of confidentiality.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Information Disclosure, Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Confidentiality
Exploit: Exploit Public, Exploit Commercial
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified
OSVDB: Web Related

Solution

Upgrade to version 8.2 Hotfix 2 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Ipswitch, Inc.

IMail Server

8.13

References

Security Tracker: 1014047
Secunia Advisory ID: 15483
Related OSVDB ID: 16803 16804 16806 16807
CVE ID: 2005-1252 (see also: NVD)
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2005-05/0275.html
Generic Exploit URL: http://immunitysec.com
Other Advisory URL: http://www.idefense.com/application/poi/display?id=242&type=vulnerabilities
Vendor URL: http://www.ipswitch.com/products/IMail_Server/index.html
Vendor Specific Advisory URL: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/imail/releases/imail_professional/im82hf2.html

Tools & Filters

Snort	15953
	18368

Credit

Anonymous - iDefense Labs VCP

CVSSv2 Score

CVSSv2 Base Score = 5.0
Source: nvd.nist.gov | Generated: 2005-05-25 | Disagree?

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