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CVE-2009-1578 Detail

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decrypt_headers.php; (2) PHP_SELF; and (3) the query string (aka QUERY_STRING).


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Hyperlink Resource
http://download.gna.org/nasmail/nasmail-1.7.zip
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/contrib/decrypt_headers.php?r1=13672&r2=13671&pathrev=13672 Patch 
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/doc/ChangeLog Patch 
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/global.php?r1=13670&r2=13669&pathrev=13670 Patch 
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13670 Patch 
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13672 Patch 
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1802
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:110 Exploit  Patch 
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34916 Patch 
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-08 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-09 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1296 Patch  Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3315
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500363
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50459
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50460
https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2146
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11624
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00566.html Patch 
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00572.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00577.html Patch 

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2009-1578
NVD Published Date:
05/14/2009
NVD Last Modified:
09/28/2017
Source:
MITRE