6.7 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
Low
5 Medium
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
0.003 Low
EPSS
Percentile
70.5%
It is possible to crash the remote MDaemon POP3 server
by sending a too long
# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2004 David Maciejak
# 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
CPE = "cpe:/a:alt-n:mdaemon";
if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.14825");
script_version("2023-08-01T13:29:10+0000");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"5.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P");
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_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1250");
script_xref(name:"OSVDB", value:"1354");
script_cve_id("CVE-2000-0399");
script_name("MDaemon POP3 Server DoS");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2004 David Maciejak");
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_dependencies("gb_altn_mdaemon_consolidation.nasl");
script_mandatory_keys("altn/mdaemon/detected");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to the newest version of this software.");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"It is possible to crash the remote MDaemon POP3 server
by sending a too long 'user' command.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"This problem allows an attacker to make the remote
MDaemon server to crash, thus preventing legitimate users from receiving e-mails.");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
exit(0);
}
include("host_details.inc");
include("version_func.inc");
if (!version = get_app_version(cpe: CPE, nofork: TRUE))
exit(0);
if (version =~ "^[0-2]\.|0\.3\.[0-3][^0-9]") {
report = report_fixed_ver(installed_version: version, fixed_version: "See advisory");
security_message(port: 0, data: report);
exit(0);
}
exit(99);