CVE-2009-1578
SquirrelMail NaSMail Before Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerabilities
Description
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decrypt_headers.php; (2) PHP_SELF; and (3) the query string (aka QUERY_STRING).
INFO
Published Date :
May 14, 2009, 5:30 p.m.
Last Modified :
April 9, 2025, 12:30 a.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
Yes !
Impact Score :
2.9
Exploitability Score :
8.6
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CVE-2009-1578.
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CVE-2009-1578 vulnerability anywhere in the article.
The following table lists the changes that have been made to the
CVE-2009-1578 vulnerability over time.
Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.
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CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Nov. 21, 2024
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Reference http://download.gna.org/nasmail/nasmail-1.7.zip Added Reference http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html Added Reference http://osvdb.org/60468 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35052 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35073 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35140 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/35259 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/37415 Added Reference http://secunia.com/advisories/40220 Added Reference http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/contrib/decrypt_headers.php?r1=13672&r2=13671&pathrev=13672 Added Reference http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/doc/ChangeLog Added Reference http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/global.php?r1=13670&r2=13669&pathrev=13670 Added Reference http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13670 Added Reference http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13672 Added Reference http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188 Added Reference http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1802 Added Reference http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:110 Added Reference http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html Added Reference http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34916 Added Reference http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-08 Added Reference http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-09 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1296 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3315 Added Reference http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481 Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500363 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50459 Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50460 Added Reference https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2146 Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11624 Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00566.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00572.html Added Reference https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00577.html -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
May. 14, 2024
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CVE Modified by [email protected]
Sep. 29, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11624 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11624 [No Types Assigned] -
CVE Modified by [email protected]
Aug. 17, 2017
Action Type Old Value New Value Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50460 [Patch] Removed Reference http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/50459 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50460 [No Types Assigned] Added Reference https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50459 [No Types Assigned] -
Initial Analysis by [email protected]
May. 15, 2009
Action Type Old Value New Value
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
While CVE identifies
specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or
weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2009-1578 is
associated with the following CWEs:
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification
(CAPEC)
stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and
approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2009-1578
weaknesses.
Exploit Prediction
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.
2.92 }} -2.10%
score
0.85171
percentile