Active Web Softwares Active Web Mail 4.0 Addressbook popaccounts.aspx TabOpenQuickTab1 sql injection

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A vulnerability was found in Active Web Softwares Active Web Mail 4.0 and classified as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing of the file popaccounts.aspx of the component Addressbook. Such manipulation of the argument TabOpenQuickTab1 leads to sql injection. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2008-6873. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. Furthermore, an exploit is available.

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A vulnerability was found in Active Web Softwares Active Web Mail 4.0. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the file popaccounts.aspx of the component Addressbook. The manipulation of the argument TabOpenQuickTab1 with an unknown input leads to a sql injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-89. The product constructs all or part of an SQL command using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the intended SQL command when it is sent to a downstream component. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

SQL injection vulnerability in Active Web Mail 4.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via the TabOpenQuickTab1 parameter to (1) popaccounts.aspx, (2) addressbook.aspx, and (3) emails.aspx.

The weakness was published 07/23/2009 (Website). The advisory is available at milw0rm.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2008-6873 since 07/23/2009. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details as well as a public exploit are known. This vulnerability is assigned to T1505 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

A public exploit has been developed by R3d-D3V!L and been published before and not just after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as highly functional. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 236 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $0-$5k. By approaching the search of inurl:popaccounts.aspx it is possible to find vulnerable targets with Google Hacking.

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 databases at X-Force (52444) and Exploit-DB (7288). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Active Web Softwares

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• Active Web Mail

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• 4.0

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