PT-2013-1543 · Squirrelmail+1 · Squirrelmail+1

Tomas Hoger · Published 2013-01-08 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2012-2124

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions SquirrelMail versions (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue is related to the handling of 8-bit characters in passwords by the functions/imap general.php file in SquirrelMail. This can be exploited by remote attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically disk consumption, by making multiple IMAP login attempts with different usernames. This results in the creation of numerous preference files.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

DoS

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-399

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-2124

RHSA-2013:0126

RHSA-2013_0126

Affected Products

Red Hat

Squirrelmail

References · 7

• http://secunia.com/advisories/51730 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-2124 · Security Note
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0126.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814671 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2012-2124 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/04/20/22 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013:0126 · Note