CVE-2001-1285: Ipswitch Imail

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in readmail.cgi for Ipswitch IMail 7.04 and earlier allows remote attackers to access the mailboxes of other users via a .. (dot dot) in the mbx parameter.

Affected products

• Ipswitch Imail: version 6.0.2 only; version 6.0.6 only; version 7.0.4 only

Published 2001-10-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.