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[SA24207] TYPO3 Mail Header Injection Vulnerability

From: Secunia Security Advisories (sec-advsecunia.com)
Date: Fri Feb 23 2007 - 03:02:05 CST


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TITLE:
TYPO3 Mail Header Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24207

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24207/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
From remote

SOFTWARE:
TYPO3 3.x
http://secunia.com/product/1190/
TYPO3 4.x
http://secunia.com/product/12113/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability is reported in TYPO3, which can be exploited by
malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.

The vulnerability is caused due to an unspecified error within the
internal form engine. This can be exploited to inject arbitrary email
headers, which e.g. allows sending spam messages.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 4.0.5, 4.1 beta
and 4.1RC1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 4.0.5.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Olivier Dobberkau, Andreas Otto, and Thorsten
Kahler.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://typo3.org/teams/security/security-bulletins/typo3-20070221-1/

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