Security readout for executives and security teams
A very old mail server product, ITHouse Mail Server 1.04, has a flaw that lets an attacker on the network send a specially oversized email command and take control of the server. It matters only if this legacy software is still running somewhere in the environment. Exposure is limited to environments still running ITHouse Mail Server 1.04, a niche late-1990s Windows SMTP product. Any surviving deployment reachable on TCP/25 from untrusted networks would be at direct risk. Modern estates almost certainly do not run this software. Low priority for most organizations because the affected product is obsolete and unlikely to be in use. If asset discovery finds any surviving ITHouse 1.04 instance, treat as high priority and retire it, since remote code execution on a mail gateway is a serious business risk. Mitigation focus: Identify any hosts still running ITHouse Mail Server 1.04 via asset inventory and SMTP banner scans.; Decommission or replace the legacy mail server with a currently supported SMTP product.; Block inbound TCP/25 to affected hosts from untrusted networks until migrated..
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- ithouse-rcpt-overflow(4580)CVE reference · vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF
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