CVE-2010-2580 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can crash the MailEnable SMTP service by sending long email addresses or domain names in MAIL FROM or RCPT TO commands.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2010-2580?
CVE-2010-2580 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Mailenable Mailenable, published on 15 Sep 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The SMTP service (MESMTPC.exe) in MailEnable 3.x and 4.25 does not properly perform a length check, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a long (1) email address in the MAIL FROM command, or (2) domain name in the RCPT TO command, which triggers an "unhandled invalid parameter error."
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-2580?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Mailenable Mailenable.
How do I fix CVE-2010-2580?
No fix has been published for CVE-2010-2580 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2010-2580 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-2580 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as GHSA-p7fx-9frv-pfx7.