Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

BID:10667

Info

Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 10667
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jul 05 2004 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 05 2004 12:00AM
Credit: Roman Medina-Heigl Hernandez <[email protected]> originally found this issue in SquirrelMail.
Vulnerable: Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.32
Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.31
Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.30
Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.21
Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.20
Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.90
Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.81
Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.71
Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.8
Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.7
Not Vulnerable: Open Webmail Open Webmail -current

Discussion

Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

Open WebMail is reported to be prone to an email header HTML injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied email header strings.

An attacker can exploit this issue to gain access to an unsuspecting user's cookie based authentication credentials; disclosure of personal email is possible. Other attacks are also possible.

OpenWebmail 2.32 and prior are prone to this issue.

Exploit / POC

Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

No exploit is required to leverage this issue.

Solution / Fix

Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
This issue has been addressed in OpenWebmail -current.


Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.7

Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.71

Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.8

Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.81

Open Webmail Open Webmail 1.90

Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.20

Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.21

Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.30

Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.31

Open Webmail Open Webmail 2.32

References

Open WebMail Email Header HTML Injection Vulnerability

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