Rob Flynn Gaim up to 0.75 Smiley Theme privileges management

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Rob Flynn Gaim. It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Smiley Theme Handler. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2004-0784. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Rob Flynn Gaim (Messaging Software). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component Smiley Theme Handler. 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, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

The smiley theme functionality in Gaim before 0.82 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the filename of the tar file that is dragged to the smiley selector.

The bug was discovered 08/26/2004. The weakness was disclosed 10/20/2004 (Website). The advisory is available at xforce.iss.net. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2004-0784 since 08/17/2004. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 55 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 15546 (Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:110)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Mandriva Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading to version 0.82 eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 1 days after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (17144), Tenable (15546), SecurityFocus (BID 11056†), OSVDB (9259†) and Vulnerability Center (SBV-8383†). The entries VDB-23467, VDB-22313 and VDB-22323 are pretty similar. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Productinfo

Type

Messaging Software

Vendor

Rob Flynn

Name

Gaim

Version

License

commercial

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 7.0

VulDB Base Score: 7.3
VulDB Temp Score: 7.0
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Privileges management
CWE: CWE-269 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 15546
Nessus Name: Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : gaim (MDKSA-2004:110)
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OpenVAS ID: 53915
OpenVAS Name: Slackware Advisory SSA:2004-239-01 gaim
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Gaim 0.82

Timelineinfo

08/17/2004 🔍
08/26/2004 +9 days 🔍
08/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
08/26/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +55 days 🔍
10/20/2004 +0 days 🔍
10/21/2004 +1 days 🔍
10/22/2004 +1 days 🔍
06/16/2005 +237 days 🔍
04/14/2015 +3589 days 🔍
06/02/2019 +1510 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: xforce.iss.net
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2004-0784 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2004-0784
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-22322

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X-Force: 17144
SecurityFocus: 11056 - Gaim Multiple Vulnerabilities
OSVDB: 9259 - CVE-2004-0784 - Gaim - Command Execution Issue
Vulnerability Center: 8383 - Gaim Allows Code Execution via Filename, Medium

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Entryinfo

Created: 04/14/2015 13:21
Updated: 06/02/2019 16:28
Changes: 04/14/2015 13:21 (74), 06/02/2019 16:28 (8)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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