4 Medium
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
6.6 Medium
AI Score
Confidence
High
0.122 Low
EPSS
Percentile
95.4%
Softalk Mail Server is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.
# Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone Networks GmbH
# Some text descriptions might be excerpted from (a) referenced
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#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
#
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# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
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#
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if(description)
{
script_oid("1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.900119");
script_version("2022-05-11T11:17:52+0000");
script_tag(name:"last_modification", value:"2022-05-11 11:17:52 +0000 (Wed, 11 May 2022)");
script_tag(name:"creation_date", value:"2008-09-10 17:51:23 +0200 (Wed, 10 Sep 2008)");
script_cve_id("CVE-2008-4041");
script_copyright("Copyright (C) 2008 Greenbone Networks GmbH");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base", value:"4.0");
script_tag(name:"cvss_base_vector", value:"AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P");
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family("Denial of Service");
script_name("Softalk Mail Server IMAP Denial of Service Vulnerability");
script_dependencies("imap4_banner.nasl");
script_require_ports("Services/imap", 143);
script_mandatory_keys("imap/softalk/detected");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://secunia.com/advisories/31715/");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30970");
script_xref(name:"URL", value:"http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/495896");
script_tag(name:"summary", value:"Softalk Mail Server is prone to a denial of service (DoS) vulnerability.");
script_tag(name:"insight", value:"The issue is due to inadequate boundary checks on specially
crafted IMAP commands. The service can by crashed sending malicious IMAP command sequences.");
script_tag(name:"affected", value:"Softalk Mail Server versions 8.5.1 and prior on Windows (all).");
script_tag(name:"solution", value:"Upgrade to Softalk Mail Server version 8.6.0 or later.");
script_tag(name:"impact", value:"Successful exploitation crashes the affected server denying the
service to legitimate users.");
script_tag(name:"qod_type", value:"remote_banner");
script_tag(name:"solution_type", value:"VendorFix");
exit(0);
}
include("imap_func.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("port_service_func.inc");
port = imap_get_port( default:143 );
banner = imap_get_banner( port:port );
if( ! banner )
exit( 0 );
if( egrep( pattern:"Softalk Mail Server ([0-7]\..*|8\.([0-4](\..*)?|5(\.0" +
"(\..*)?)?|5\.1))[^.0-9]", string:banner ) ) {
security_message( port:port );
exit( 0 );
}
exit( 99 );