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Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2009-0030

Original release date:01/21/2009
Last revised:02/20/2009
Source: US-CERT/NIST

Overview

A certain Red Hat patch for SquirrelMail 1.4.8 sets the same SQMSESSID cookie value for all sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to access other users' folder lists and configuration data in opportunistic circumstances by using the standard webmail.php interface. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3663.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
CVSS v2 Base Score:6.5 (MEDIUM) (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P) (legend)
Impact Subscore: 6.4
Exploitability Subscore: 8.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service

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External Source: REDHAT
Name: RHSA-2009:0057
Hyperlink:https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0057.html
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480488
Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480488
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480224
Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=480224
External Source: XF
Name: squirrelmail-sessionid-session-hijacking(48115)
Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/48115
External Source: BID
Name: 33354
Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33354
External Source: SECTRACK
Name: 1021611
Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1021611
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 33611
Type: Advisory
Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/33611
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2009:004
Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00002.html

Vulnerable software and versions

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Technical Details

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CVE Standard Vulnerability Entry:http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-0030