MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

BID:5013

Info

MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 5013
Class: Input Validation Error
CVE: CVE-2002-1575
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Jun 14 2002 12:00AM
Updated: Jul 11 2009 01:56PM
Credit: Credited to sec <[email protected]>.
Vulnerable: MIT cgiemail 1.6
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

A vulnerability has been reported for cgiemail that allows cgiemail to act as an open relay for email. The vulnerability is due to failure of proper santization of user supplied values. In particular the new line code "%0a" is not filtered properly.

As a result, a malicious user may trivially specify any email address, effectively using the script as an open mail relay.

Exploit / POC

MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

There is no exploit code required.

Solution / Fix

MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

Solution:
Debian has released advisory DSA 437-1 dealing with this issue:


MIT cgiemail 1.6

References

MIT CGIEmail Arbitrary Recipient Mail Relay Vulnerability

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