According to its banner, the version of MERCUR Messaging running on the remote host has a directory traversal vulnerability. An authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this to read or write arbitrary files on the system.
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
include("compat.inc");
if(description)
{
script_id(10382);
script_version ("1.20");
script_cve_id("CVE-2000-0318");
script_bugtraq_id(1144);
script_name(english:"MERCUR Mailserver Local Traversal Arbitrary File Access");
script_summary(english:"mercure imap version check");
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"synopsis",
value:"The remote IMAP server has a directory traversal vulnerability."
);
script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value:
"According to its banner, the version of MERCUR Messaging running
on the remote host has a directory traversal vulnerability. An
authenticated, remote attacker could exploit this to read or write
arbitrary files on the system." );
# https://web.archive.org/web/20000819133832/http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/ntbugtraq/2000-q2/0057.html
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"see_also",
value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?b2817eb6"
);
script_set_attribute(
attribute:"solution",
value:"Upgrade to the latest version of this software."
);
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2000/04/25");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value: "2000/04/13");
script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/07/16 12:48:31");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Misc.");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2000-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
script_dependencie("find_service1.nasl", "imap_overflow.nasl");
script_exclude_keys("imap/false_imap");
script_require_ports("Services/imap", 143);
exit(0);
}
#
# The script code starts here
#
port = get_kb_item("Services/imap");
if(!port)port = 143;
if(get_port_state(port))
{
soc = open_sock_tcp(port);
if(soc > 0)
{
buf = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024);
close(soc);
if(!buf)exit(0);
if(ereg(pattern:"^.*MERCUR IMAP4-Server.*v3\.20\..*$",
string:buf))
security_warning(port);
}
}