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MailEnable Webmail quoted-printable Denial of Service Vulnerability (2)

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks version of MailEnable

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote web server is affected by a denial of service issue.

Description :

The remote host is running MailEnable, a commercial mail server for
Windows.

According to its banner, using the webmail service bundled with the
version of MailEnable Enterprise Edition on the remote host to view
specially-formatted quoted-printable messages reportedly can result in
100% CPU utilization.

See also :

http://www.mailenable.com/professionalhistory.asp
http://www.mailenable.com/enterprisehistory.asp

Solution :

Upgrade to MailEnable Professional Edition 1.73 / Enterprise Edition
1.21 or later.

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2.3
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/I:N/A:P/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 17161

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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