National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2008-4932

Overview

webmail/modules/filesystem/edit.php in U-Mail Webmail server 4.91 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an absolute pathname in the path parameter and arbitrary content in the content parameter. NOTE: this can be leveraged for code execution by writing to a file under the web document root.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

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External Source: XF

Name: umail-edit-file-upload(46300)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/46300

External Source: BID

Name: 32013

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/32013

External Source: BUGTRAQ

Name: 20081031 U-Mail Webmail 'edit.php' Arbitrary File Write Vulnerability

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/497961/100/0/threaded

External Source: SREASON

Name: 4565

Hyperlink:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4565

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 32540

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/32540

External Source: MILW0RM

Name: 6898

Hyperlink:http://milw0rm.com/exploits/6898