CVE-2009-1578

Public Exploit

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).

Category

4.3
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 2.92% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory apple.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory secunia.com Vendor Advisory squirrelmail.org Vendor Advisory squirrelmail.org Vendor Advisory vupen.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html vendor advisory
https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2146
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:110 exploit patch vendor advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34916 vdb entry patch
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/doc/ChangeLog patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481 vdb entry
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-09 patch vendor advisory
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00566.html patch vendor advisory
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13670 patch
http://secunia.com/advisories/35140 third party advisory
http://download.gna.org/nasmail/nasmail-1.7.zip
http://osvdb.org/60468 vdb entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00577.html patch vendor advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11624 vdb entry signature
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50459 vdb entry
http://secunia.com/advisories/40220 third party advisory
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13672 patch
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1296 vdb entry patch vendor advisory
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://secunia.com/advisories/35259 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35052 third party advisory vendor advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50460 vdb entry
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00572.html vendor advisory
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html vendor advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/37415 third party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/35073 third party advisory vendor advisory
http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/global.php?r1=13670&r2=13669&pathrev=13670 patch
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-08 patch vendor advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3315 vdb entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500363
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1802 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2009-1578?
CVE-2009-1578 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2009-1578?
To fix CVE-2009-1578, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2009-1578 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2009-1578 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~3% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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