CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-9278
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-01-16
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-255
Description
MailEnable before 8.60 allows Privilege Escalation because admin accounts could be created as a consequence of %0A mishandling in AUTH.TAB after a password-change request.
Affected configurations
• mailenable mailenable (< 8.60)
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable/ Third Party Advisory
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- https://www.nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable.pdf Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable/ Third Party Advisory