Info

Disclosure

Feb 05, 2006

Discovery

Unknown

Dates

Exploit

Unknown

Solution

Unknown

Description

Erik Thauvin's mailback.pl contains a flaw that may allow a malicious user to inject arbitrary email headers via the user supplied subject, allowing email to be sent to arbitrary recipients. The issue is triggered when a malicious user enters a subject with a newline followed by "CC" and "BCC" headers. It is possible that the flaw may allow spamming and other unauthorized mail relaying resulting in a loss of integrity.

Classification

Location: Remote / Network Access
Attack Type: Input Manipulation
Impact: Loss of Integrity
Exploit: Exploit Public
Disclosure: OSVDB Verified, Vendor Verified

Solution

Upgrade to version 1.4 or higher, as it has been reported to fix this vulnerability. An upgrade is required as there are no known workarounds.

Products

Erik Thauvin

mailback.pl

1.3

References

Secunia Advisory ID: 18748
CVE ID: 2006-0631 (see also: NVD)
ISS X-Force ID: 24540
VUPEN Advisory: ADV-2006-0459
Vendor Specific Solution URL: ftp://ftp.skytouch.com/soft/unix/cgi-scripts/mailback.pl.txt
Mail List Post: http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-02/0085.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2006-02/0147.html
Vendor Specific News/Changelog Entry: http://erik.thauvin.net/blog/news.jsp?date=2006-02-08#834

Credit

coderpunk - coderpunkgmail.com -

Direct URL: http://osvdb.org/22955