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HistoryNov 29, 2018 - 12:00 a.m.

FreeBSD : messagelib -- HTML email can open browser window automatically (c7b1af20-f34f-11e8-9cde-e0d55e2a8bf9)

2018-11-2900:00:00
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5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

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

5.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.9%

Albert Astals Cid reports :

messagelib is the library used by KMail to display emails.

messagelib by default displays emails as plain text, but gives the user an option to ‘Prefer HTML to plain text’ in the settings and if that option is not enabled there is way to enable HTML display when an email contains HTML.

Some HTML emails can trick messagelib into opening a new browser window when displaying said email as HTML.

This happens even if the option to allow the HTML emails to access remote servers is disabled in KMail settings.

This means that the owners of the servers referred in the email can see in their access logs your IP address.

#
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# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database :
#
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include("compat.inc");

if (description)
{
  script_id(119273);
  script_version("1.3");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/25");

  script_cve_id("CVE-2018-19516");

  script_name(english:"FreeBSD : messagelib -- HTML email can open browser window automatically (c7b1af20-f34f-11e8-9cde-e0d55e2a8bf9)");
  script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output");

  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"synopsis",
    value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"description",
    value:
"Albert Astals Cid reports :

messagelib is the library used by KMail to display emails.

messagelib by default displays emails as plain text, but gives the
user an option to 'Prefer HTML to plain text' in the settings and if
that option is not enabled there is way to enable HTML display when an
email contains HTML.

Some HTML emails can trick messagelib into opening a new browser
window when displaying said email as HTML.

This happens even if the option to allow the HTML emails to access
remote servers is disabled in KMail settings.

This means that the owners of the servers referred in the email can
see in their access logs your IP address."
  );
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"https://www.kde.org/info/security/advisory-20181128-1.txt"
  );
  # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/c7b1af20-f34f-11e8-9cde-e0d55e2a8bf9.html
  script_set_attribute(
    attribute:"see_also",
    value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?9bf7186a"
  );
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:messagelib");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/11/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2018/11/28");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2018/11/29");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
  script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("freebsd_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;

if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"messagelib<18.08.3_2")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
freebsdfreebsdmessagelibp-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:messagelib
freebsdfreebsdcpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

5 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

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

5.3 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

LOW

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

35.9%

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