CVE-2001-0039 — IPSwitch IMail 6

IPSwitch IMail 6.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service using the SMTP AUTH command by sending a base64-encoded user password whose length is between 80 and 136 bytes.

01What is this vulnerability?

IPSwitch IMail 6.0.5 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service using the SMTP AUTH command by sending a base64-encoded user password whose length is between 80 and 136 bytes.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2001-05-07T04:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-08T04:06:55.330Z

09References

• www.securityfocus.com — http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/2083
• archives.neohapsis.com — http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2000-12/0071.html
• www.ipswitch.com — http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/IMail/news.html
• exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com — https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/5674