CVE-2002-1307

unknown
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v4 NEW
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
1.0

Description

Cross-site scripting vulnerability (XSS) in MHonArc 2.5.12 and earlier allows remote attackers to insert script or HTML via an email message with the script in a MIME header name.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-22026 remote linux verified text · 1 KB
Steven Christey · 2002-11-19

Mhonarc 2.5.x - Mail Header HTML Injection

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6204/info

A HTML injection vulnerability has been discovered in Mhonarc.

An attacker may exploit this issue by sending a specially constructed email containing malicious HTML code in the header section. When the vulnerable Mhonarc client converts the message to HTML, any malicious HTML code will be executed within the context of the displayed web page.

To: <someone@example.com>
From: <hacker@example.com>
Header<SCRIPT>hello</SCRIPT>def: whatever

OS impact

debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.5.13-1
sid Fixed 2.5.13-1
forky Fixed 2.5.13-1
bullseye Fixed 2.5.13-1
bookworm Fixed 2.5.13-1

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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