Bug 1445165 (CVE-2017-7692) - CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data
Summary: CVE-2017-7692 squirrelmail: Insufficient escaping of user-supplied data
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7692
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1445166 1445167
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-04-25 07:34 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 03:11:07 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:34:55 UTC 
Squirrelmail is vulnerable to a remote code execution vulnerability because it fails to sanitize a string before passing it to a popen call. It's possible to exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary shell commands on the remote server.

References:

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/96
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2017/Apr/81
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/114
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:35:14 UTC 
Created squirrelmail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1445166]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1445167]
Comment 2 Andrej Nemec 2017-04-25 07:36:27 UTC 
External References:

http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2017-04-24
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