A vulnerability was found in Confirm up to 0.62 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component Mail Header Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Confirm 0.62 and earlier could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an e-mail header that contains shell metacharacters such as ", `, |, ;, or $.

The weakness was released 02/23/2004 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at marc.theaimsgroup.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0324. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (15290).

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• 0.50
• 0.51
• 0.52
• 0.53
• 0.54
• 0.55
• 0.60
• 0.61
• 0.62

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