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SquirrelMail < 1.4.6 Multiple Vulnerabilities

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
Checks for IMAP command injection in SquirrelMail

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

Summary :

The remote webmail application is affected by multiple issues.

Description :

The installed version of SquirrelMail fails to sanitize user-supplied
input to mailbox names before passing them to an IMAP server. An
unauthenticated attacker may be able to leverage this issue to launch
attacks against the underlying IMAP server or against a user's
mailboxes by tricking him into clicking on a specially-formatted link
in an email message.

There are also reportedly several possible cross-site scripting flaws
that could be exploited to injection arbitrary HTML and script code
into a user's browser.

See also :

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-01
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-10
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-02-15

Solution :

Upgrade to SquirrelMail 1.4.6 or later.

Network Security Threat Level:

Low / CVSS Base Score : 2.3
(AV:R/AC:L/Au:NR/C:N/I:P/A:N/B:N)

Networks Security ID: 16756

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is Copyright (C) 2006 Tenable Network Security

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