SquirrelMail 1.2.7 Error Message options.php optpage Path information disclosure

CVSS Meta Temp Score
CVSS is a standardized scoring system to determine possibilities of attacks. The Temp Score considers temporal factors like disclosure, exploit and countermeasures. The unique Meta Score calculates the average score of different sources to provide a normalized scoring system.
Current Exploit Price (≈)
Our analysts are monitoring exploit markets and are in contact with vulnerability brokers. The range indicates the observed or calculated exploit price to be seen on exploit markets. A good indicator to understand the monetary effort required for and the popularity of an attack.
CTI Interest Score
Our Cyber Threat Intelligence team is monitoring different web sites, mailing lists, exploit markets and social media networks. The CTI Interest Score identifies the interest of attackers and the security community for this specific vulnerability in real-time. A high score indicates an elevated risk to be targeted for this vulnerability.
5.1$0-$5k0.00

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in SquirrelMail 1.2.7 (Mail Client Software). This affects some unknown functionality of the file options.php of the component Error Message Handler. The manipulation of the argument optpage with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability (Path). CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

SquirrelMail 1.2.7 and earlier allows remote attackers to determine the absolute pathname of the options.php script via a malformed optpage file argument, which generates an error message when the file cannot be included in the script.

The bug was discovered 09/19/2002. The weakness was published 10/04/2002 with Redhat (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at debian.org. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2002-1132. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. No form of authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1592 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 15 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:options.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15028 (Debian DSA-191-1 : squirrelmail - XSS), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Debian Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (10345) and Tenable (15028). Similar entries are available at 19034 and 19165.

Productinfo

Type

Name

Version

License

CPE 2.3info

CPE 2.2info

CVSSv4info

VulDB CVSS-B Score: 🔍
VulDB CVSS-BT Score: 🔍
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.1

VulDB Base Score: 5.3
VulDB Temp Score: 5.1
VulDB Vector: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

CVSSv2info

AVACAuCIA
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
💳💳💳💳💳💳
VectorComplexityAuthenticationConfidentialityIntegrityAvailability
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock
unlockunlockunlockunlockunlockunlock

VulDB Base Score: 🔍
VulDB Temp Score: 🔍
VulDB Reliability: 🔍

NVD Base Score: 🔍

Exploitinginfo

Name: Path
Class: Information disclosure / Path
CWE: CWE-200 / CWE-284 / CWE-266
CAPEC: 🔍
ATT&CK: 🔍

Local: No
Remote: Yes

Availability: 🔍
Status: Not defined
Google Hack: 🔍

EPSS Score: 🔍
EPSS Percentile: 🔍

Price Prediction: 🔍
Current Price Estimation: 🔍

0-Dayunlockunlockunlockunlock
Todayunlockunlockunlockunlock

Nessus ID: 15028
Nessus Name: Debian DSA-191-1 : squirrelmail - XSS
Nessus File: 🔍
Nessus Risk: 🔍
Nessus Family: 🔍
Nessus Context: 🔍

OpenVAS ID: 53736
OpenVAS Name: Debian Security Advisory DSA 191-1 (squirrelmail)
OpenVAS File: 🔍
OpenVAS Family: 🔍

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Interest: 🔍
Active Actors: 🔍
Active APT Groups: 🔍

Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
Status: 🔍

Reaction Time: 🔍
0-Day Time: 🔍
Exposure Time: 🔍

Timelineinfo

09/19/2002 🔍
09/19/2002 +0 days 🔍
10/04/2002 +15 days 🔍
10/04/2002 +0 days 🔍
10/11/2002 +7 days 🔍
11/07/2002 +27 days 🔍
09/29/2004 +692 days 🔍
05/10/2007 +953 days 🔍
07/30/2014 +2638 days 🔍
07/18/2019 +1814 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: debian.org
Organization: Redhat
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2002-1132 (🔍)
X-Force: 10345
Vulnerability Center: 15060 - SquirrelMail Absolute Pathname Disclosure via Malformed optpage File Argument, Medium
SecurityFocus: 5949 - SquirrelMail Options.PHP Web Root Path Disclosure Vulnerability
OSVDB: 11629 - SquirrelMail - Options.PHP - Web Root Path Disclosure Vulnerability

See also: 🔍

Entryinfo

Created: 07/30/2014 12:55
Updated: 07/18/2019 21:09
Changes: 07/30/2014 12:55 (75), 07/18/2019 21:09 (5)
Complete: 🔍

Discussion

No comments yet. Languages: en.

Please log in to comment.

Do you know our Splunk app?

Download it now for free!