Rapid7

module

Mercur Messaging 2005 IMAP Login Buffer Overflow

Disclosed
Mar 17, 2006
Created
May 30, 2018

Description

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow in Atrium Mercur IMAP 5.0 SP3.
Since the room for shellcode is small, using the reverse ordinal payloads
yields the best results.

Platform

Windows

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/imap/mercur_login
msf exploit(mercur_login) > show targets
...targets...
msf exploit(mercur_login) > set TARGET < target-id >
msf exploit(mercur_login) > show options
...show and set options...
msf exploit(mercur_login) > exploit

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