Mailnews 1.3 mailnews.cgi Username privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Mailnews 1.3 and classified as very critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the file mailnews.cgi. The manipulation of the argument Username with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

mailnews.cgi 1.3 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a user name that contains shell metacharacters.

The weakness was released 05/03/2001 by kaneda as not defined posting (Bugtraq). The advisory is shared for download at archives.neohapsis.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2001-0271. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 05/10/2019). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10641 (MAILNEWS mailnews.cgi Arbitrary Command Execution), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CGI abuses and running in the context r.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product. Attack attempts may be identified with Snort ID 1471.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6139) and Tenable (10641).

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
ATT&CK: T1068

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Nessus ID: 10641
Nessus Name: MAILNEWS mailnews.cgi Arbitrary Command Execution
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 1471
Snort Message: SERVER-WEBAPP mailnews.cgi access
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02/18/2001 🔍
03/25/2001 +35 days 🔍
05/03/2001 +39 days 🔍
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07/03/2014 +4028 days 🔍
05/10/2019 +1772 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: archives.neohapsis.com
Researcher: kaneda
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-0271 (🔍)
X-Force: 6139
Vulnerability Center: 1245 - mailnews CGI Allows Arbitrary Command Execution, Medium
SecurityFocus: 2391 - Mailnews.cgi Username Remote Shell Commands Vulnerability

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Created: 07/03/2014 17:30
Updated: 05/10/2019 09:19
Changes: 07/03/2014 17:30 (67), 05/10/2019 09:19 (3)
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