Eudora Long URL Status Bar Obfuscation

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 1218

Synopsis

The remote email client may be tricked into visiting a malicious URI

Description

Eudora versions 6.0.0 through 6.1.0 are vulnerable to a URI obfuscation weakness that may hide the true contents of a link. An attacker, exploiting this bug remotely, would send an HTML email with an obfuscated link which actually redirects to a malicous or misleading web page.

Solution

Upgrade to the most recent version of Eudora.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 1218

Family: SMTP Clients

Published: 8/20/2004

Updated: 3/6/2019

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:eudora:eudora

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2004-2649

BID: 10305

Detections

Analytics