SCAN Associates Advisory : Multiple vurnerabilities on mailreader.com

From: pokleyzz (pokleyzz@scan-associates.net)
Date: Mon Oct 28 2002 - 01:48:04 PST

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    Products: Mailreader.com v 2.3.31 and below (http://www.mailreader.com)
    Date: 28 October 2002
    Author:  pokleyzz <pokleyzz@scan-associates.net>
    Contributors: sk@scan-associates.net shaharil@scan-associates.net
    
    Description
    ===========
    Mailreader.com (http://www.mailreader.com) is  web base pop3 email 
    reader written in perl.
    
    Details
    =======
    There is multiple vurnerabilities in this package as describe below.
    
    1) Read any text file
    
    By default mailreader install with language support.  There is no proper
    error checking in configLanguage input.Using nullbyte poisoning  we can 
    easily overwrite that value with any file we want and cause mailreader to 
    display the file content.
    ex:
    
    http://192.168.0.1/cgi-bin/mail/nph-mr.cgi?do=loginhelp&configLanguage=../..
    /../../../../../etc/passwd%00
    
    Affected version :  <=  Mailreader.com v2.3.31
    
    
    2) Remote command execution
    
    Mailreader allow user to specify their own mail server so any user can
    login and use the mailreader . User also can overwrite SMTPServers 
    configuration using configSMTPServers input.  For version 2.3.30 and above
    there is an option to use sendmail as mail transfer agent.  There is poor 
    error checking for $CONFIG{RealEmail} in compose.cgi which will use as $from in
    network.cgi.
     
    from network.cgi line 372:
    
    	if ($server =~ /[.]*sendmail/) {
    		# close the file 'cause it isn't needed
    		close FILE;
    
    		# send the file
    		my $res = `$server -U -f$from -t -i < $filename`;
    
    		# and escape
    		return 1;
    	}
    
    This will allow user to include value that will escape to shell and run 
    arbitrary command as web user.
    
    Affected version : Mailreader.com v2.3.30 and Mailreader.com v2.3.31
    
    Vendor Response 
    =============== 
    Vendor has been contacted on 23/10/2002 and new version of Mailreader.com  
    is available.
    



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