CVE-2009-0030

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2009-01-15
Bugzilla:
480488: CVE-2009-0030 squirrelmail: session management flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

A certain Red Hat patch for SquirrelMail 1.4.8 sets the same SQMSESSID cookie value for all sessions, which allows remote authenticated users to access other users' folder lists and configuration data in opportunistic circumstances by using the standard webmail.php interface. NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2008-3663.

Find out more about CVE-2009-0030 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 6.5
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (squirrelmail) RHSA-2009:0057 2009-01-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 (squirrelmail) RHSA-2009:0057 2009-01-19
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (squirrelmail) RHSA-2009:0057 2009-01-19

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