From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 07:07:17 CDT

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TITLE:
SquirrelMail Insecure Parameters Extraction Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16058

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16058/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Cross Site Scripting, Manipulation of data, Exposure of sensitive
information

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
SquirrelMail 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/288/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in SquirrelMail, which can be
exploited by malicious people to conduct cross-site scripting
attacks, and disclose and manipulate sensitive information.

The vulnerability is caused due to an error where parameters are
insecurely extracted in options_identities.php. This can be exploited
to disclose and manipulate other users' preferences, write files to
arbitrary locations, and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in a
user's browser session in context of an affected site.

The vulnerability has been reported in versions 1.4.0 through
1.4.5-RC1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.5.
http://www.squirrelmail.org/download.php

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits James Bercegay, GulfTech Security.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2005-07-13

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