CVE-2001-1286 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier stores a user's session ID in a URL, which could allow remote attackers to hijack sessions by obtaining the URL, e.g. via an HTML email that causes the Referrer to be sent to a URL under the attacker's control.

Published: 2002-05-03

Score: 7.5 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:imail:6.0.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:imail:6.0.6:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:ipswitch:imail:7.0.4:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2001-1267	Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier stores a user's session ID in a URL, which could allow remote attackers to hijack sessions by obtaining the URL, e.g. via an HTML email that causes the Referrer to be sent to a URL under the attacker's control.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00113.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-10/0082.html
http://online.securityfocus.com/archive/1/261096
http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/IMail/news.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3432

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Ipswitch Imail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2002-05-03T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T04:51:07.444Z

Reserved: 2002-05-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2001-1286

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2001-10-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2001-1286

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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