CVE-2007-5018

Mercury 32 vulnerability

CVSS

6.0

EPSS

3.6%

EPSS pct

88th

Exploited

No known

Stack-based buffer overflow in IMAPD in Mercury/32 4.52 allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long argument in a SEARCH ON command. NOTE: this issue might overlap with CVE-2004-1211.

Affected vendor

David Harris

Affected product

Mercury 32

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds

Published

2007-09-20

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.6% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 88% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether David Harris Mercury 32 is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2007-5018.
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