CVE-2006-0818

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-07-21 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Absolute path directory traversal vulnerability in (1) MERAK Mail Server for Windows 8.3.8r with before IceWarp Web Mail 5.6.1 and (2) VisNetic MailServer before 8.5.0.5 allows remote authenticated users to include arbitrary files via a modified language parameter and a full Windows or UNC pathname in the lang_settings parameter to mail/index.html, which is not properly sanitized by the validatefolder PHP function, possibly due to an incomplete fix for CVE-2005-4558.

Affected products

Deerfield Visnetic Mail Server: 8.3.5
IceWarp Web Mail: 5.6.0
Merak Mail Server: 8.3.8r

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18953
http://secunia.com/advisories/18966
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-12/advisory/
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2006-14/advisory/
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016513
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016514
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440297/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/440302/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19002
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/19007
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/2825
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/27780

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