Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title New squirrelmail packages fix cross-site scripting
Informations
Name DSA-1290 First vendor Publication 2007-05-13
Vendor Debian Last vendor Modification 2007-05-13
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 1

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

It was discovered that the webmail package Squirrelmail performs insufficient sanitising inside the HTML filter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code during the display of HTML email messages.

For the oldstable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.4-11.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.9a-2.

For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in version 1.4.10a-1.

We recommend that you upgrade your squirrelmail package.

Original Source

Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1290

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:11712
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11712
Title: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) data: URI in an HTML e-mail attachment or (2) various non-ASCII character sets that are not properly filtered when viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Description: Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the HTML filter in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) data: URI in an HTML e-mail attachment or (2) various non-ASCII character sets that are not properly filtered when viewed with Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Family: unix Class: vulnerability
Reference(s): CVE-2007-1262
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:
Definition Id: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17997
 
Oval ID: oval:org.mitre.oval:def:17997
Title: DSA-1290-1 squirrelmail
Description: It was discovered that the webmail package Squirrelmail performs insufficient sanitising inside the HTML filter, which allows the injection of arbitrary web script code during the display of HTML email messages.
Family: unix Class: patch
Reference(s): DSA-1290-1
CVE-2007-1262
Version: 5
Platform(s): Debian GNU/Linux 4.0
Product(s): squirrelmail
Definition Synopsis:

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 18

OpenVAS Exploits

Date Description
2009-02-27 Name : Fedora Update for squirrelmail FEDORA-2007-505
File : nvt/gb_fedora_2007_505_squirrelmail_fc6.nasl
2008-09-04 Name : FreeBSD Ports: squirrelmail
File : nvt/freebsd_squirrelmail4.nasl
2008-01-17 Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 1290-1 (squirrelmail)
File : nvt/deb_1290_1.nasl

Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)

Id Description
35888 SquirrelMail with MSIE Unspecified Non-ASCII Character Set XSS

35887 SquirrelMail HTML E-mail Attachment Data URI XSS

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2013-07-12 Name : The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.
File : oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0358.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2012-08-01 Name : The remote Scientific Linux host is missing a security update.
File : sl_20070517_squirrelmail_on_SL5_x.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_squirrelmail-3629.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-10-17 Name : The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
File : suse_squirrelmail-3944.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-08-02 Name : The remote host is missing a Mac OS X update that fixes various security issues.
File : macosx_SecUpd2007-007.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-25 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_0e575ed3076411dca80b0016179b2dd5.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-20 Name : The remote CentOS host is missing a security update.
File : centos_RHSA-2007-0358.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-20 Name : The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.
File : redhat-RHSA-2007-0358.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-16 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.
File : debian_DSA-1290.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2007-05-16 Name : The remote Fedora Core host is missing a security update.
File : fedora_2007-505.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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