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Mercury Mail SMTP AUTH CRAM-MD5 Buffer Overflow

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Disclosed
Aug 18, 2007
Created
May 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

MC [email protected]

Platform

Windows

References

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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