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security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Thiyagu_2 — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 09:29:48 GMT

hi guys!

I am using Windows 2000 Advance Server and Exchange 2003 server.

I am facing a big security risk in my exchange server. The problem is, I can login into another users inbox and can see the mails of them. By doing the following things,

1) type, https://mydomain.com/exchange/username(another user)/inbox

it is asking for the username and password, by giving my username and password, I could enter the another users mailbox.

for ex, take a user A,

by typing https://mydomain.com/exchange/a/inbox, it asks for the username and password,

then i am giving my username and password, then i could see the inbox mails of user A.

I also deleted the cookies and cleared the history, they are helpless!

Please help me in this problem soon.

Thanks in advance!

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Ron Kinner — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:35:58 GMT

Is your Username in the Adminstrator group?

Ron

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Thiyagu_2 — Thu, 10 Feb 2005 11:45:11 GMT

No! I am not in the Administrator group.

And I checked with other mail-ids also.not only me others could also see the mail-ids of other people's mail box .

ie., everyone can see everyone's mailbox by this method.

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Akos Hegedus — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:00:43 GMT

Hi,

the problem occurs only in OWA or you can add anyone mailbox to your mail profile and can see his/her mailbox?

regards,
Akos

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Akos Hegedus — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 09:05:07 GMT

Check security in System Manager on the Organization object!

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;264733

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Thiyagu_2 — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 11:32:35 GMT

Sorry ya!

I could not get you. Where I can found that. And what is it for?

Thanks in advance

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Thiyagu_2 — Wed, 16 Feb 2005 06:09:06 GMT

I think it's the problem of settings in the mailbox rights. Please have a look at the attachment.

It has full mailbox access to everyone. Actually I upgraded exchange 2000 to exchange 2003. So the permissions are mingled. I am not sure whether it is right or wrong. It's my guess.

I think it should be changed to only read permission for everyone group. And when I go to change the mailbox rights, i cant' because they are greyed out and disabled.

Please help me how to change to the settings like in the attached file.

Re: security problem in exchange 2003 server.

Thiyagu_2 — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 08:46:32 GMT

A log is also generated in Event viewer as,

Event ID:1016
Type:Success Audit
Category: Logons
Source: ExchangeIS Mailbox Store

Windows 2000 User domain\user1 logged on to user2@mydomain.com mailbox, and is not the primary Windows 2000 account on this mailbox.

For more information, click http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

It is sure that user1 has logged into user2's inbox.

I found this in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/173692/EN-US/
But i could not find the solution.

How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance!