Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Informations
Name CVE-2008-2379 First vendor Publication 2008-12-04
Vendor Cve Last vendor Modification 2024-11-21

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Cvss Base Score 4.3 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 2.9 Attack Complexity Medium
Cvss Expoit Score 8.6 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted hyperlink in an HTML part of an e-mail message.

Original Source

Url : http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2379

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
100 % CWE-79 Failure to Preserve Web Page Structure ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

OVAL Definitions

Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18672
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:18672
Title: DSA-1682-1 squirrelmail - cross site scripting
Description: Ivan Markovic discovered that SquirrelMail, a webmail application, did not sufficiently sanitise incoming HTML email, allowing an attacker to perform cross site scripting through sending a malicious HTML email.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1682-1
CVE-2008-2379
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): squirrelmail
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8286
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:8286
Title: DSA-1682 squirrelmail -- insufficient input sanitising
Description: Ivan Markovic discovered that SquirrelMail, a webmail application, did not sufficiently sanitise incoming HTML email, allowing an attacker to perform cross site scripting through sending a malicious HTML email.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1682
CVE-2008-2379
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
 Product(s): squirrelmail
Definition Synopsis:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9764
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9764
Title: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted hyperlink in an HTML part of an e-mail message.
Description: Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted hyperlink in an HTML part of an e-mail message.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2008-2379
 Version: 5
Platform(s): Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
CentOS Linux 3
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
CentOS Linux 4
Oracle Linux 4
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
CentOS Linux 5
Oracle Linux 5
 Product(s):
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 100

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0010 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0010_squirrelmail_centos3_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0010 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0010_squirrelmail_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0010 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0010_squirrelmail_centos5_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos3 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos3_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos4 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos4_i386.nasl
2011-08-09 Name : CentOS Update for squirrelmail CESA-2009:0057 centos5 i386
File : nvt/gb_CESA-2009_0057_squirrelmail_centos5_i386.nasl
2010-05-12 Name : Mac OS X Security Update 2009-001
File : nvt/macosx_secupd_2009-001.nasl
2009-09-02 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-8797 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_8797.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-5350 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_5350.nasl
2009-06-05 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-5471 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_5471.nasl
2009-05-20 Name : Fedora Core 9 FEDORA-2009-4870 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_4870.nasl
2009-05-20 Name : Fedora Core 10 FEDORA-2009-4880 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/fcore_2009_4880.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for squirrelmail FEDORA-2008-10918
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10918_squirrelmail_fc8.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for squirrelmail FEDORA-2008-10748
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10748_squirrelmail_fc10.nasl
2009-02-16 Name : Fedora Update for squirrelmail FEDORA-2008-10740
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2008_10740_squirrelmail_fc9.nasl
2009-01-20 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0057
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0057.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2009:0010
File : nvt/RHSA_2009_0010.nasl
2009-01-13 Name : CentOS Security Advisory CESA-2009:0010 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/ovcesa2009_0010.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : FreeBSD Ports: squirrelmail
File : nvt/freebsd_squirrelmail6.nasl
2008-12-10 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1682-1 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/deb_1682_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
50460 SquirrelMail Crafted Email HTML Hyperlink XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20090119_squirrelmail_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20090112_squirrelmail_on_SL3_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-5350.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-26 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-5471.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-05-13 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2009-4870.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-04-23 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10748.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-02-13 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2009-001.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-20 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0057.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-13 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2009-0010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2009-01-13 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2009-0010.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-16 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_squirrelmail-5860.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-11 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1682.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10918.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-08 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2008-10740.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-05 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_d1ce8a4fc23511dd8cbc00163e000016.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2008-12-05 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_squirrelmail-5835.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

Sources (Detail)

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Feb/msg00000.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-12/msg00002.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/32143
http://secunia.com/advisories/33054
http://secunia.com/advisories/33071
http://secunia.com/advisories/33937
http://security-net.biz/wsw/index.php?p=254&n=190
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3438
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1682
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32603
http://www.squirrelmail.org/index.php
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/3332
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/47024
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.ova...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg0022...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-December/msg0044...
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