CVE-2008-4584

Mail vulnerability

CVSS

6.8

EPSS

4.7%

EPSS pct

91th

Exploited

No known

Insecure method vulnerability in Chilkat Mail 7.8 ActiveX control (ChilkatCert.dll) allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via a full pathname to the SaveLastError method.

Affected vendor

Chilkat Software

Affected product

Mail

CVSS vector

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

Published

2008-10-15

Risk analysis

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

Its EPSS score of 4.7% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 91% of all scored CVEs.

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Confirm whether Chilkat Software Mail is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2008-4584.
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