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Brightmail Unauthorised Access to Filtered Mails
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA12010
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Release Date:
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2004-07-05
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Last Update:
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2004-07-15
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Popularity:
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8,806 views
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Critical:
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Not critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| Software: | Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.x
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2004-0671
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Description:
Thomas Springer has reported a privacy issue in Brightmail, potentially allowing malicious users to read arbitrary mails.
The problem is that it is possible to access arbitrary filtered mails through the control center by altering the value supplied to the "id" parameter.
Example:
/brightmail/quarantine/viewMsgDetails.do?id=QMsgView-[some-value]
This has been reported to affect beta versions of Brightmail 6.0. The final version may also be affected.
Solution:
Symantec has released a hot fix:
http://support.brightmail.com
Provided and/or discovered by:
Thomas Springer
Changelog:
2004-07-14: Added CVE reference.
2004-07-15: Updated solution.
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