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Mercury Mail SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow

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Mercury Mail SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
08/18/2007
Created
05/30/2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Mercury Mail Transport System 4.51. By sending a specially crafted argument to the AUTH CRAM-MD5 command, an attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code.

Author(s)

  • MC <mc@metasploit.com>

Platform

Windows

Development

Module Options

To display the available options, load the module within the Metasploit console and run the commands 'show options' or 'show advanced':

msf > use exploit/windows/smtp/mercury_cram_md5
msf exploit(mercury_cram_md5) > show targets
    ...targets...
msf exploit(mercury_cram_md5) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mercury_cram_md5) > show options
    ...show and set options...
msf exploit(mercury_cram_md5) > exploit

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