PT-2008-5406 · Open Source Matters · Joomla!

Emanuele Gentili · Published 2008-09-18 · Updated 2017-08-08 · CVE-2008-4103

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Joomla! versions prior to 1.5.7

Description The issue concerns the mailto component, which fails to validate URLs before sending email messages. This allows remote attackers to transmit spam.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.5.7, update to version 1.5.7 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4103

Affected Products

Joomla!

References · 9

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4103 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31789 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4103 · Note
• http://developer.joomla.org/security/news/273-20080903-core-commailto-spam.html · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122118210029084&w=2 · Note
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4275 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45070 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122115344915232&w=2 · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122152798516853&w=2 · Note