PT-2009-5992 · Websense · Websense Personal Email Manager+1
Published
2009-10-22
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Updated
2018-10-10
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CVE-2009-3748
CVSS v2.0
4.3
Medium
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N |
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
Websense Personal Email Manager versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4
Websense Email Security versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4
Description
The issue allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via several parameters to specific API endpoints, including "web/msgList/viewmsg/actions/msgAnalyse.asp", "actions/msgForwardToRiskFilter.asp", and "viewHeaders.asp" in "web/msgList/viewmsg/". The vulnerable parameters include
FileName, IsolatedMessageID, ServerName, Dictionary, Scoring, MessagePart, Queue, and the subject in an e-mail message.Recommendations
For Websense Personal Email Manager versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4, apply Hotfix 4 to resolve the issue.
For Websense Email Security versions prior to 7.1 Hotfix 4, apply Hotfix 4 to resolve the issue.
As a temporary workaround, consider restricting access to the vulnerable API endpoints, such as "web/msgList/viewmsg/actions/msgAnalyse.asp", until a patch is available.
Avoid using the vulnerable parameters, including
FileName, IsolatedMessageID, ServerName, Dictionary, Scoring, MessagePart, and Queue, in the affected API endpoints until the issue is resolved.Exploit
Fix
XSS
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Weakness Enumeration
Related Identifiers
Affected Products
Websense Email Security
Websense Personal Email Manager