Double Precision Incorporated courier-imap up to 4.1.1 Login LOGINRUN privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Double Precision Incorporated courier-imap up to 4.1.1 and classified as very critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component Login. The manipulation of the argument LOGINRUN with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Eval injection vulnerability in (1) courier-imapd.indirect and (2) courier-pop3d.indirect in Courier-IMAP before 4.0.6-r2, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2-r1, on Gentoo Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the XMAILDIR variable, related to the LOGINRUN variable.

The bug was discovered 04/22/2007. The weakness was published 02/23/2007 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at secunia.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2007-2173 since 04/24/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for 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 08/01/2019). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

Upgrading to version 4.0.6-r2 eliminates this vulnerability. Furthermore it is possible to detect and prevent this kind of attack with TippingPoint and the filter 5337.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at X-Force (33805).

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Exploitinginfo

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

Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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OpenVAS ID: 58224
OpenVAS Name: Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200704-18 (courier-imap)
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: courier-imap 4.0.6-r2
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-2173 (🔍)
X-Force: 33805
Vulnerability Center: 17009 - Courier-IMAP on Gentoo Allows Remote Attackers to Execute Arbitrary Code with Root Privileges, Critical
SecurityFocus: 23589 - Courier-IMAP XMAILDIR Shell Command Injection Vulnerability
Secunia: 24963 - Gentoo courier-imap "XMAILDIR" Variable Command Injection, Highly Critical
OSVDB: 35274 - Gentoo courier-imap XMAILDIR Variable Remote Command Injection

Entryinfo

Created: 03/13/2015 14:56
Updated: 08/01/2019 09:51
Changes: 03/13/2015 14:56 (74), 08/01/2019 09:51 (1)
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