Executive Summary
| Summary | |
|---|---|
| Title | New cgiemail packages fix open mail relaying |
| Informations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | DSA-437 | First vendor Publication | 2004-02-11 |
| Vendor | Debian | Last vendor Modification | 2004-02-11 |
| 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:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cvss Base Score | 5 | Attack Range | Network |
| Cvss Impact Score | 2.9 | Attack Complexity | Low |
| Cvss Expoit Score | 10 | Authentication | None Required |
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Detail
| A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contentsof an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send email to arbitrary addresses. This type of vulnerability is commonly exploited to send unsolicited commercial email (spam). For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 1.6-14woody1. For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in version 1.6-20. We recommend that you update your cgiemail package. |
Original Source
| Url : http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-437 |
CAPEC : Common Attack Pattern Enumeration & Classification
| Id | Name |
|---|---|
| CAPEC-64 | Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic |
| CAPEC-72 | URL Encoding |
CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration
| % | Id | Name |
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CPE : Common Platform Enumeration
| Type | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| Application | 1 |
OpenVAS Exploits
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2008-01-17 | Name : Debian Security Advisory DSA 437-1 (cgiemail) File : nvt/deb_437_1.nasl |
Open Source Vulnerability Database (OSVDB)
| Id | Description |
|---|---|
| 3955 | cgiemail Open E-Mail Relay MIT cgiemail contains a flaw that allows a remote attacker to send e-mail without authentication. The issue us due to the program not asking or requiring authentication credentials to send e-mail. If an attacker (or spammer) uses this, mail can be sent through the server and made to appear from the victim network. |
Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner
| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 2004-09-29 | Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update. File : debian_DSA-437.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO |
Alert History
| Date | Informations |
|---|---|
| 2014-02-17 11:33:04 |
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