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FreeBSD : squirrelmail -- Session hijacking vulnerability (a0afb4b9-89a1-11dd-a65b-00163e000016)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 34271

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.

Description

Hanno Boeck reports :

When configuring a web application to use only ssl (e.g. by forwarding all http-requests to https), a user would expect that sniffing and hijacking the session is impossible.

Though, for this to be secure, one needs to set the session cookie to have the secure flag. Otherwise the cookie will be transferred through HTTP if the victim's browser does a single HTTP request on the same domain.

Squirrelmail does not set that flag. It is fixed in the 1.5 test versions, but current 1.4.15 is vulnerable.

Solution

Update the affected package.

See Also

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2008/Sep/0239.html

http://www.nessus.org/u?1d6eee1c

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 34271

File Name: freebsd_pkg_a0afb4b989a111dda65b00163e000016.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Published: 9/24/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2008

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/12/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-3663

BID: 31321

CWE: 310