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SquirrelMail Insecure Parameters Extraction Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16058
Release Date: 2005-07-14
Last Update: 2005-07-15
Popularity: 9,305 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Cross Site Scripting
Manipulation of data
Exposure of sensitive information
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:SquirrelMail 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-2095


Description:
James Bercegay has reported a vulnerability in SquirrelMail, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting attacks, and disclose and manipulate sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error where parameters are insecurely extracted in options_identities.php. This can be exploited to disclose and manipulate other users' preferences, write files to arbitrary locations, and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.5-RC1.

Solution:
Update to version 1.4.5.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
James Bercegay, GulfTech Security.

Changelog:
2005-07-15: James Bercegay released details. Updated advisory.

Original Advisory:
SquirrelMail:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-07-13

GulfTech Security:
http://www.gulftech.org/?node=research&article_id=00090-07142005


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