SquirrelMail < 1.4.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

medium Nessus Plugin ID 20970

Synopsis

The remote webmail application is affected by multiple issues.

Description

The installed version of SquirrelMail fails to sanitize user-supplied input to mailbox names before passing them to an IMAP server. An unauthenticated attacker may be able to leverage this issue to launch attacks against the underlying IMAP server or against a user's mailboxes by tricking him into clicking on a specially-formatted link in an email message.

There are also reportedly several possible cross-site scripting flaws that could be exploited to inject arbitrary HTML and script code into a user's browser.

Solution

Upgrade to SquirrelMail 1.4.6 or later.

See Also

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-01

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-10

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-15

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 20970

File Name: squirrelmail_146.nasl

Version: 1.23

Type: remote

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 2/22/2006

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail

Required KB Items: imap/login, imap/password, www/squirrelmail

Excluded KB Items: Settings/disable_cgi_scanning

Exploit Ease: No exploit is required

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/1/2006

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2006-0188, CVE-2006-0195, CVE-2006-0377

BID: 16756

CWE: 20, 442, 629, 711, 712, 722, 725, 74, 750, 751, 79, 800, 801, 809, 811, 864, 900, 928, 931, 990