SquirrelMail up to 1.4.9a compose.php cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in SquirrelMail. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the file compose.php. The manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2007-2589. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in SquirrelMail (Mail Client Software) and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file compose.php. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in compose.php in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allows remote attackers to send e-mails from arbitrary users via certain data in the SRC attribute of an IMG element.

The bug was discovered 05/09/2007. The weakness was disclosed 05/09/2007 by DiGiT with Secunia Research (Website). It is possible to read the advisory at secunia.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2007-2589 since 05/10/2007. The exploitation is known to be easy. 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. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit.

It is declared as proof-of-concept. By approaching the search of inurl:compose.php it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 25257 (CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : squirrelmail (CESA-2007:0358)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family CentOS Local Security Checks and running in the context l. The commercial vulnerability scanner Qualys is able to test this issue with plugin 156101 (Oracle Enterprise Linux Update for SquirrelMail (ELSA-2007-0358)).

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 2 weeks after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at X-Force (34219), Tenable (25257), SecurityFocus (BID 25159†), OSVDB (35889†) and Secunia (SA25200†). The entries VDB-3075, VDB-23424, VDB-25650 and VDB-26472 are pretty similar. Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Nessus ID: 25257
Nessus Name: CentOS 3 / 4 / 5 : squirrelmail (CESA-2007:0358)
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OpenVAS ID: 80056
OpenVAS Name: Oracle Linux Local Check: ELSA-2007-0358
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Recommended: Upgrade
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Sourcesinfo

Advisory: secunia.com⛔
Researcher: DiGiT
Organization: Secunia Research
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2007-2589 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2007-2589
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-36707

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X-Force: 34219
SecurityFocus: 25159 - Apple Mac OS X 2007-007 Multiple Security Vulnerabilities
Secunia: 25200
OSVDB: 35889 - SquirrelMail compose.php IMG Element SRC Attribute CSRF
Vulnerability Center: 15239 - XSS Vulnerability in SquirrelMail, Medium
Vupen: ADV-2007-1748

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Created: 03/13/2015 14:56
Updated: 07/19/2019 20:47
Changes: 03/13/2015 14:56 (79), 07/19/2019 20:47 (7)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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