Directory traversal vulnerability in the IMAP service in EServ/3 3.25 allows remote authenticated users to read other user's email…

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the IMAP service in EServ/3 3.25 allows remote authenticated users to read other user's email messages, create/rename arbitrary directories on the system, and delete empty directories via directory traversal sequences in the (1) CREATE, (2) SELECT, (3) DELETE, (4) RENAME, (5) COPY or (6) APPEND commands.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.6% · top 23% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.5.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• 20059 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• 1006 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
• eserv-imap-directory-traversal(26738) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
• http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-37/advisory/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• ADV-2006-2066 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
• 18179 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• 20060531 Secunia Research: Eserv/3 IMAP and HTTP Server MultipleVulnerabilities (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
• http://www.eserv.ru/ru/news/news_detail.php?ID=235 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 7 Aug 2024, 17:43 UTC.