CVE-2006-5487

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-11-10 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in Marshal MailMarshal SMTP 5.x, 6.x, and 2006, and MailMarshal for Exchange 5.x, allows remote attackers to write arbitrary files via ".." sequences in filenames in an ARJ compressed archive.

Affected products

Marshal Mailmarshal Smtp: 5.0, 6.0, 2006

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/22806
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1857
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017209
http://www.marshal.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11450
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/451143/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20999
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4457
http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-06-039.html
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30188
http://secunia.com/advisories/22806
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1857
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017209

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