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eGroupWare HTML Filter Bypass Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory: SA29491  
Release Date: 2008-03-24
Last Update: 2008-03-27

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

Software:eGroupWare 1.x

CVE reference:CVE-2008-1502 (Secunia mirror)

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

The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the "_bad_protocol_once()" function in phpgwapi/inc/class.kses.inc.php and can be exploited to bypass HTML filtering policies.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.003.

Solution:
Update to version 1.4.003.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits lukasz.pilorz.

Changelog:
2008-03-27: Added CVE reference.

Original Advisory:
http://www.egroupware.org/changelog



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