Open Webmail up to 2.51 ow-shared.pl sessionid cross site scripting

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Open Webmail up to 2.51. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file ow-shared.pl. Such manipulation of the argument sessionid leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2006-2190. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Open Webmail up to 2.51 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the file ow-shared.pl. The manipulation of the argument sessionid with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-80. The product receives input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special characters such as "<", ">", and "&" that could be interpreted as web-scripting elements when they are sent to a downstream component that processes web pages. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in ow-shared.pl in OpenWebMail (OWM) 2.51 and earlier allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sessionid parameter in (1) openwebmail-send.pl, (2) openwebmail-advsearch.pl, (3) openwebmail-folder.pl, (4) openwebmail-prefs.pl, (5) openwebmail-abook.pl, (6) openwebmail-read.pl, (7) openwebmail-cal.pl, and (8) openwebmail-webdisk.pl. NOTE: the openwebmail-main.pl vector is already covered by CVE-2005-2863.

The weakness was released 05/04/2006 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at openwebmail.acatysmoof.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2006-2190 since 05/04/2006. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (26105) and Secunia (SA16734†). Entry connected to this vulnerability is available at VDB-26267. VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Open Webmail

Version

• 2.0
• 2.1
• 2.2
• 2.3
• 2.4
• 2.5
• 2.6
• 2.7
• 2.8
• 2.9
• 2.10
• 2.11
• 2.12
• 2.13
• 2.14
• 2.15
• 2.16
• 2.17
• 2.18
• 2.19
• 2.20
• 2.21
• 2.22
• 2.23
• 2.24
• 2.25
• 2.26
• 2.27
• 2.28
• 2.29
• 2.30
• 2.31
• 2.32
• 2.33
• 2.34
• 2.35
• 2.36
• 2.37
• 2.38
• 2.39
• 2.40
• 2.41
• 2.42
• 2.43
• 2.44
• 2.45
• 2.46
• 2.47
• 2.48
• 2.49
• 2.50
• 2.51

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