MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2008-3606

Wingate vulnerability

CVSS
6.5
EPSS
4.5%
EPSS pct
90th
Exploited
No known
Heap-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service in Qbik WinGate 6.2.2.1137 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (resource exhaustion) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a long argument to the LIST command. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.
Affected vendor
Qbik
Affected product
Wingate
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within Memory Bounds
Published
2008-08-12

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low 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 4.5% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 90% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2008-3606

  • Confirm whether Qbik Wingate is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-3606.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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