National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2005-4080

Overview

Horde IMP 4.0.4 and earlier does not sanitize strings containing UTF16 null characters, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via UTF16 encoded attachments and strings that will be executed when viewed using Internet Explorer, which ignores the characters.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: XF

Name: imp-email-attachment-xss(23465)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/23465

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2005-2773

Hyperlink:http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2773

External Source: BID

Name: 15730

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15730/

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20051206 Horde IMP Webmail Client XSS all versions

Type: Advisory; Exploit

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/418734/100/0/threaded

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015315

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015315

External Source: SREASON

Name: 232

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/232

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 17910

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/17910