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TYPO3 Mail Header Injection Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA24207
Release Date: 2007-02-23
Last Update: 2007-03-02
Popularity: 5,544 views

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

Software:TYPO3 3.x
TYPO3 4.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2007-1081


Description:
A vulnerability is reported in TYPO3, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the internal form engine. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary email headers, which e.g. allows sending spam messages.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.0.5, 4.1 beta and 4.1RC1.

Solution:
Update to version 4.0.5.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Olivier Dobberkau, Andreas Otto, and Thorsten Kahler.

Changelog:
2007-03-02: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20070221-1/


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