CVE-2006-5487
HIGH · CVSS 10.0EPSS 4.0%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 10.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-22
- EPSS score
- 4.0% (91th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5472)
- Published
- November 10, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5472 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- marshal / mailmarshal smtp
- marshal / mailmarshal smtp
- marshal / mailmarshal smtp
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22806(Vendor Advisory)
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/1857
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017209
- http://www.marshal.com/kb/article.aspx?id=11450(Patch)
- 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(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30188
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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