CVE-2015-9278 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

MailEnable before 8.60 allows Privilege Escalation because admin accounts could be created as a consequence of %0A mishandling in AUTH.TAB after a password-change request.

Published: 2019-01-16

Score: 9.8 Critical

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

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mailenable:mailenable:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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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-2015-9120	MailEnable before 8.60 allows Privilege Escalation because admin accounts could be created as a consequence of %0A mishandling in AUTH.TAB after a password-change request.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00245.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://web.archive.org/web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt
https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable.pdf
https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable/

History

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Subscriptions

Mailenable Mailenable

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-01-16T16:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:43:42.525Z

Reserved: 2019-01-16T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-9278

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-01-16T16:29:00.307

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:40:14.237

Link: CVE-2015-9278

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-255

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