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Drupal Form_mail Module Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA20920
Release Date: 2006-07-05
Last Update: 2006-07-13
Popularity: 7,669 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Security Bypass
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:Drupal Form_mail Module 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-3473


Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in the Form_mail module for Drupal, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

Input passed to unspecified parameters is not properly sanitised before being used to construct an email message. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary email headers by inserting newline characters in the parameter.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions prior to revision 1.8.2.2.

Solution:
Update to the latest version 4.6.0.

Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported by the vendor.

Changelog:
2006-07-13: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://drupal.org/node/72177


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