Qualcomm Eudora 5.1.1 ActiveX Control privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Qualcomm Eudora 5.1.1. It has been classified as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2002-2313. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Qualcomm Eudora 5.1.1 (Mail Client Software). This issue affects an unknown code block of the component ActiveX Control. The manipulation 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, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Eudora email client 5.1.1, with "use Microsoft viewer" enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary programs via an HTML email message containing a META refresh tag that references an embedded .mhtml file with ActiveX controls that execute a second embedded program, which is processed by Internet Explorer.

The weakness was published 12/31/2002 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at lists.grok.org.uk. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2002-2313 since 10/26/2007. The attack may be initiated remotely. No form of authentication is needed for a successful exploitation. It demands that the victim is doing some kind of user interaction. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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 (9654). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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• Mail Client Software

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• Qualcomm

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• Eudora

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• 5.1.1

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• commercial

Website

• Vendor: https://www.qualcomm.com/

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