National Vulnerability Database (NVD) National Vulnerability Database (CVE-2012-2584)

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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-2584

Original release date:08/12/2012

Last revised:03/23/2013

Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in Alt-N MDaemon Free 12.5.4 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an e-mail message body with (1) the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) expression property in conjunction with a CSS comment within the STYLE attribute of an IMG element, (2) the CSS expression property in conjunction with multiple CSS comments within the STYLE attribute of an arbitrary element, or (3) an innerHTML attribute within an XML document.

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: XF

Name: mdaemon-body-xss(77543)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/77543

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1027409

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1027409

External Source: BID

Name: 54885

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/54885

External Source: EXPLOIT-DB

Name: 20357

Hyperlink:http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/20357/