Matt Tourtillott nph-maillist 3.0/3.5 nph-maillist.pl email privileges management

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Matt Tourtillott nph-maillist 3.0/3.5. This vulnerability affects an unknown code of the file nph-maillist.pl. The manipulation of the argument email 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:

nph-maillist.pl allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters ("`") in the email address.

The weakness was published 07/02/2001 by kaneda (Website). The advisory is available at securityfocus.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2001-0400. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is required for a successful exploitation. Technical details and also a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed in Perl. It is possible to download the exploit at securityfocus.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 10164 (Lincoln D. Stein nph-publish.cgi pathname Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Write), 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 1451. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 878.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (6363) and Tenable (10164). Similar entry is available at 15145.

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

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Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
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Nessus ID: 10164
Nessus Name: Lincoln D. Stein nph-publish.cgi pathname Parameter Traversal Arbitrary File Write
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OpenVAS ID: 10164
OpenVAS Name: nph-publish.cgi
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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Snort ID: 1451
Snort Message: SERVER-WEBAPP NPH-maillist access
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: securityfocus.com
Researcher: kaneda
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2001-0400 (🔍)
X-Force: 6363
Vulnerability Center: 3306 - Nph-maillist.pl Allows Command Execution, High
SecurityFocus: 2563 - nph-maillist Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability

scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 07/05/2014 01:05
Updated: 06/25/2021 17:23
Changes: 07/05/2014 01:05 (74), 05/18/2019 21:49 (4), 06/25/2021 17:23 (3)
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