IBM Lotus Notes prior 6.0 Address Book

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in IBM Lotus Notes. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Address Book. This manipulation causes an unknown weakness. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2006-1948. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability has been found in IBM Lotus Notes (Groupware Software) and classified as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component Address Book. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, and integrity. The summary by CVE is:

The "Add Sender to Address Book" operation (AddSenderToAddressBook.lss) and NameHelper.lss in IBM Lotus Notes 6.0 and 6.5 before 20060331 do not properly store information in the Personal Address Book when multiple messages are checked and a message uses AltFrom, which might allow user-assisted remote attackers to trick a user into sending e-mail to an unauthorized recipient.

The weakness was presented 04/20/2006 (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at www-1.ibm.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2006-1948 since 04/20/2006. The exploitation appears to be difficult. The attack can be launched remotely. The exploitation doesn't need any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 6.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at SecurityTracker (ID 1015914†). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Unknown
CWE: Unknown
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Lotus Notes 6.0

Timelineinfo

04/14/2006 🔍
04/20/2006 +6 days 🔍
04/20/2006 +0 days 🔍
04/20/2006 +0 days 🔍
03/12/2015 +3248 days 🔍
09/05/2017 +908 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: ibm.com

Advisory: www-1.ibm.com
Status: Confirmed
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CVE: CVE-2006-1948 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2006-1948
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-29803
SecurityTracker: 1015914 - IBM Lotus Notes Incorrect E-mail Address Book Entry May Cause Mail to Be Sent to the Wrong Recipient

Entryinfo

Created: 03/12/2015 12:19
Updated: 09/05/2017 08:53
Changes: 03/12/2015 12:19 (47), 09/05/2017 08:53 (6)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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