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Secunia Advisory SA11334

Open WebMail Directory Creation Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA11334

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Release Date

2004-04-09

Last Update

2005-08-22

Popularity

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Criticality level

Not critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Patch

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

Open WebMail 2.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2004-2458 CVSS available in Customer Area

Description

Eric Wheeler has reported a vulnerability in Open WebMail, allowing malicious users to create arbitrary directories.

The problem occurs if "use_syshomedir" is set to "no", or "create_syshomedir" is set to "yes".

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.30 and prior.

Solution
This has been fixed in CVS.

Provided and/or discovered by
Eric Wheeler

Changelog
Further details available in Customer Area

Deep Links
Links available in Customer Area

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Open WebMail Directory Creation Vulnerability

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