SquirrelMail 1.x - Email Header HTML Injection

Author: Roman Medina
type: remote
platform: linux
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date_added: 2004-05-31 
date_updated: 2013-01-16 
verified: 1 
codes: CVE-2004-0520;OSVDB-6514 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10439/info

SquirrelMail is reported to be prone to an email header HTML injection vulnerability. This issue is due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied email header strings.

An attacker can exploit this issue to gain access to an unsuspecting user's cookie based authentication credentials; disclosure of personal email is possible. Other attacks are also possible.

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