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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-3229

Original release date:06/27/2006

Last revised:09/05/2008

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Open WebMail (OWM) 2.52, and other versions released before 05/12/2006, allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) To and (2) From fields in openwebmail-main.pl, and possibly (3) other unspecified vectors related to "openwebmailerror calls that need to display HTML."

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS v2 Base Score:4.3 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N) (legend)

Impact Subscore: 2.9

Exploitability Subscore: 8.6

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

Access Vector: Network exploitable; Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism

Access Complexity: Medium

Authentication: Not required to exploit

Impact Type:Allows unauthorized modification

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External Source: VIM

Name: 20060626 Openwebmail: 2 XSS vulns not one, and some version hints

Type: Patch Information

Hyperlink:http://www.attrition.org/pipermail/vim/2006-June/000902.html

External Source: XF

Name: openwebmail-read-xss(27309)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/27309

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 20714

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/20714

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://openwebmail.org/openwebmail/doc/changes.txt