CVE-2005-1252

Imail vulnerability

CVSS

5.0

EPSS

12.5%

EPSS pct

96th

Exploited

No known

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Web Calendaring server in Ipswitch Imail 8.13, and other versions before IMail Server 8.2 Hotfix 2, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via "..\" (dot dot backslash) sequences in the query string argument in a GET request to a non-existent .jsp file.

Affected vendor

Ipswitch

Affected product

Imail

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Published

2005-05-25

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality.

Its EPSS score of 12.5% reflects a moderate probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 96% of all scored CVEs.

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