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FreeBSD : squirrelmail -- _$POST variable handling allows for various attacks (7d52081f-2795-11da-bc01-000e0c2e438a)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 21456

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

A Squirrelmail Advisory reports :

An extract($_POST) was done in options_identities.php which allowed for an attacker to set random variables in that file. This could lead to the reading (and possible writing) of other people's preferences, cross site scripting or writing files in webserver-writable locations.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-07-13

http://www.nessus.org/u?73a5b5d2

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 21456

File Name: freebsd_pkg_7d52081f279511dabc01000e0c2e438a.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ja-squirrelmail, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Patch Publication Date: 9/17/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2095

BID: 14254