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Secunia Advisory SA7776

PHP-Nuke mail CRLF injection

Secunia Advisory

SA7776

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Release Date

2002-12-23

Popularity

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Criticality level

Less critical

Impact

Security Bypass

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Unpatched

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Remediation status

Secunia VIM

Software:

PHP-Nuke 6.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

PHP-Nuke does not verify input to various mail functions correctly, this can be abused by people to send arbitrary emails in an anonymous fasion, this could be abused to spamming.

The problem is that the From and Reply-To headers aren't stripped for malicious characters, like CR and LF.

Solution
Edit the source code, so that all input to the mail function is handled properly.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Ulf Harnhammar

Deep Links
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