Debian DSA-2091-1 : squirrelmail - No user-specific token implemented

medium Nessus Plugin ID 48344

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Synopsis

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

Description

SquirrelMail, a webmail application, does not employ a user-specific token for webforms. This allows a remote attacker to perform a Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attack. The attacker may hijack the authentication of unspecified victims and send messages or change user preferences among other actions, by tricking the victim into following a link controlled by the offender.

In addition, a denial-of-service was fixed, which could be triggered when a password containing 8-bit characters was used to log in (CVE-2010-2813 ).

Solution

Upgrade the squirrelmail packages.

For the stable distribution (lenny), these problems have been fixed in version 1.4.15-4+lenny3.1.

See Also

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543818

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-2813

https://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2091

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 48344

File Name: debian_DSA-2091.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/17/2010

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:squirrelmail, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:5.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2009-2964, CVE-2010-2813

BID: 36196, 42399

CWE: 352

DSA: 2091