Marshal MailMarshal UNARJ Extraction Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

BID:20999

Info

Marshal MailMarshal UNARJ Extraction Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 20999
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2006-5487
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Nov 10 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Nov 14 2006 08:06PM
Credit: This vulnerability was discovered by an anonymous researcher.
Vulnerable: Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 6.0
Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 5.0
Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 2006
Marshal MailMarshal for Exchange 5.0
Not Vulnerable: Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 6.1.9

Discussion

Marshal MailMarshal UNARJ Extraction Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Marshal MailMarshal is affected by a remote directory-traversal vulnerability because the application fails to properly sanitize or validate filenames prior to decompression.

Exploiting this issue may allow an attacker to arbitrarily overwrite files with a user's privileges when a malicious compressed file is decompressed with the affected application.

MailMarshal SMTP 5.x, MailMarshal SMTP 6.x, MailMarshal SMTP 2006, and MailMarshal for Exchange 5.x are vulnerable; other versions may also be affected.

Exploit / POC

Marshal MailMarshal UNARJ Extraction Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

To exploit this issue, an attacker must entice a victim user to open a malformed archive file. The attacker may use readily available archiving utilities to create the archive file.

Solution / Fix

Marshal MailMarshal UNARJ Extraction Remote Directory Traversal Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor has released MailMarshal SMTP 2006 version 6.1.8. to address this issue; please contact the vendor to obtain the appropriate fixes.

References

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