National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-0239
Original release date:05/02/2005
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
viewcert.php in the S/MIME plugin 0.4 and 0.5 for Squirrelmail allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the cert parameter.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Provides user account access, Allows partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability violation; Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows disruption of service
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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#502328
Name: VU#502328
Type: Advisory; Patch Information
External Source: XF
Name: squirrelmail-smime-command-execution(19242)
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=54
External Source: IDEFENSE
Name: 20050207 SquirrelMail S/MIME Plugin Command Injection Vulnerability
Type: Advisory
