CVE-2008-5991: Mailwatch

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Directory traversal vulnerability in docs.php in MailWatch for MailScanner 1.0.4 and earlier allows remote attackers to include and execute arbitrary local files via a .. (dot dot) in the doc parameter.

Affected products

• Mailwatch Mailwatch: up to and including 1.0.4; version 0.3 only; version 0.4 only; version 0.5 only; version 0.5.1 only; version 1.0 only; …

Published 2009-01-28. Last modified 2026-06-16.