PT-2006-3169 · Open Webmail · Open Webmail

Published 2006-05-04 · Updated 2017-07-20 · CVE-2006-2190

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions OpenWebMail versions 2.51 and earlier

Description A cross-site scripting (XSS) issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the sessionid parameter in various scripts, including "openwebmail-send.pl", "openwebmail-advsearch.pl", "openwebmail-folder.pl", "openwebmail-prefs.pl", "openwebmail-abook.pl", "openwebmail-read.pl", "openwebmail-cal.pl", and "openwebmail-webdisk.pl".

Recommendations For OpenWebMail versions 2.51 and earlier, consider disabling the sessionid parameter in the affected scripts until a patch is available. Restrict access to these scripts to minimize the risk of exploitation. Avoid using the sessionid parameter in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-2190

Affected Products

Open Webmail

References · 7

• 🔥 http://secunia.com/advisories/16734 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-2190 · Security Note
• http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/archive/html/owm-announce/owm-announce.200605/msg00000.html · Patch
• http://pridels0.blogspot.com/2006/04/open-webmail-251-xss-vuln.html · Note
• http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev/svn/index.pl/openwebmail/diff/trunk/src/cgi-bin/openwebmail/shares/ow-shared.pl?rev1=232%3Brev2=233 · Note
• http://openwebmail.acatysmoof.com/dev/svn/index.pl/openwebmail/log/trunk/?rev=233&limit=33 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/26105 · Note