Security Advisory SA26877 - Merak Mail Server Email Body Script Insertion Vulnerability

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Secunia Advisory SA26877

Merak Mail Server Email Body Script Insertion Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory

SA26877

Release Date

2007-09-19

Last Update

2007-09-25

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

Cross Site Scripting

Where

From remote

Authentication level

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Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

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Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

IceWarp Web Mail 5.x

Merak Mail Server 8.x

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CVE Reference(s)

CVE-2007-5046 CVSS score available to Secunia VIM customers

Description

MWR InfoSecurity has reported a vulnerability in Merak Mail Server, which can be exploited by malicious people to conduct script insertion attacks.

Input passed via the email body is not properly sanitised before being displayed. This can be exploited to execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a user's browser session in context of an affected site when a specially crafted email is opened.

The vulnerability is reported in Merak Mail Server version 8.9.1 (Windows) and 8.9.2 (Linux). Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
Upgrade to IceWarp Merak Mail Server 9.0.0.
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MWR InfoSecurity

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Original Advisory
http://www.mwrinfosecurity.com/publications/mwri_merak-webmail-xss-advisory_2008-09-17.pdf

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