01 Record
CVE-2008-3727
Directory traversal vulnerability in Web Based Administration in MicroWorld Technologies MailScan 5.6.a espatch 1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in Web Based Administration in MicroWorld Technologies MailScan 5.6.a espatch 1 allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a .. (dot dot) in the URI.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.84% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 86.5% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-08-20 16:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 09:53Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-08-20
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 25a714ca69e3cce6a38411f4085e74885f20c8b1e4177b3815d56ecc7bd10cf8
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- securityreason.com4172http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4172
- www.securityfocus.com30700http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30700
- secunia.com31534http://secunia.com/advisories/31534
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commailscan-admininterface-directory-traversal(44514)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/44514
- marc.info20080815 Re: MicroWorld MailScan - Multiple Vulnerabilities within Admin-Webinterfacehttp://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=121881329424635&w=2
- www.exploit-db.com6407https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/6407
- www.oliverkarow.dehttp://www.oliverkarow.de/research/mailscan.txt