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SquirrelMail Multiple Vulnerabilities
Secunia Advisory: SA18985
Release Date: 2006-02-22
Last Update: 2006-04-04
Popularity: 12,385 views

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

Software:SquirrelMail 1.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-0188
CVE-2006-0195
CVE-2006-0377


Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in SquirrelMail, which can be exploited by malicious users to manipulate certain information, and by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting and script insertion attacks.

1) Input passed to the "right_main" parameter in "webmail.php" isn't properly sanitised before being returned to the user. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site.

2) Some input validation errors in the processing of HTML in incoming mails can be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code, which will be executed in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when the malicious mail is viewed.

Example:
* Comments in styles (requires that the user views the mail with the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser).

3) Input passed to the "mailbox" parameter in "read_body.php" isn't properly sanitised before being used in a IMAP query and can be exploited to inject arbitrary IMAP commands.

The vulnerabilities have been reported in version 1.4.5 and prior.

Solution:
Update to version 1.4.6.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php

Provided and/or discovered by:
1) Reported by the vendor.
2) Keigo Yamazaki, LAC.
The vendor credits Scott Hughes and Martijn Brinkers.
3) The vendor credits Vicente Aguilera.

Changelog:
2006-02-24: Added additional cross-site scripting vulnerability.
2006-02-28: Updated "Description" and "Solution" sections.
2006-04-04: Added information provided by Keigo Yamazaki.

Original Advisory:
1) http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-01
2) http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-10
http://www.lac.co.jp/business/sns/intelligence/SNSadvisory_e/86_e.html
3) http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-15


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