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Date: Tue May 03 2005 - 06:22:56 CDT

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TITLE:
Open WebMail Shell Command Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA15225

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/15225/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
Open WebMail 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/793/
Open WebMail 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/3167/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Open WebMail, which can be
exploited by malicious users to compromise a vulnerable system.

Some input passed as parameters is not properly sanitised before
being used in an "open()" call. This can be exploited to inject
arbitrary shell commands via the "|" character.

Successful exploitation requires user to be authenticated.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 2.51 and prior.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerability has fixed in the CVS repository (after 2005-04-30).

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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