CVE-2015-9278

CRITICAL 9.8CVE-2015-9278 · Published 16/01/2019 · updated 17/06/2026

In short

CVE-2015-9278 is a CRITICAL (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability affecting mailenable (mailenable).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.5%, higher than 84.6% of all vulnerabilities.
Fix: update to 8.60 or later.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
mailenable mailenable	`< 8.60`	`8.60`

Description

MailEnable before 8.60 allows Privilege Escalation because admin accounts could be created as a consequence of %0A mishandling in AUTH.TAB after a password-change request.

References

web.archive.org/web/20150329173628/http://www.mailenable.com/Standard-ReleaseNotes.txt · Release Notes
nccgroup.trust/globalassets/our-research/uk/technical-advisories/2015/technical-advisory-multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable.pdf · Exploit
nccgroup.trust/uk/our-research/multiple-vulnerabilities-in-mailenable · Third Party Advisory

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Package

Affected versions

Patched versions

mailenable

< 8.60

8.60

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