Vulnerability Report

CVE-2001-1283

RCE

Title: IMail webmail long mailbox name DoS/RCE

RCE/Denial of Service

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2001-1283.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo

Published Date Oct 12, 2001

Modified Date Apr 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.35%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2001-1283: The webmail interface for Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) via a mailbox name that contains a large number of . (dot) or other characters to programs such as (1) readmail.cgi or (2) printmail.cgi, possibly due to a buffer overflow that may allow execution of arbitrary code.

Impacted Vendors

ipswitch 1

Reference Links

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-10/0082.html http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/IMail/news.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3427 http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-10/0082.html http://www.ipswitch.com/Support/IMail/news.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/3427

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2001-1283 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 12, 2001 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.