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GLSA-200802-03 : Horde IMP: Security bypass

medium Nessus Plugin ID 31033

Synopsis

The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200802-03 (Horde IMP: Security bypass)

 Ulf Harnhammar, Secunia Research discovered that the 'frame' and 'frameset' HTML tags are not properly filtered out. He also reported that certain HTTP requests are executed without being checked.
 Impact :

 A remote attacker could entice a user to open a specially crafted HTML e-mail, possibly resulting in the deletion of arbitrary e-mail messages.
 Workaround :

 There is no known workaround at this time.

Solution

All Horde IMP users should upgrade to the latest version:
 # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=www-apps/horde-imp-4.1.6'

See Also

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/200802-03

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 31033

File Name: gentoo_GLSA-200802-03.nasl

Version: 1.14

Type: local

Published: 2/12/2008

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:gentoo:linux, p-cpe:/a:gentoo:linux:horde-imp

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Gentoo/release, Host/Gentoo/qpkg-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/11/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-6018

CWE: 264

GLSA: 200802-03