Follow @Openwall on Twitter for new release announcements and other news
[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <20130827234131.GN32641@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 17:41:31 -0600
From: Vincent Danen <vdanen@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: CVE request: roundcube 0.9.3 fixes two XSS
 flaws

* [2013-08-23 14:18:49 -0400] cve-assign@...re.org wrote:

>>[2] http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489251
>
>As far as we can tell from the
>http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489251 history, the addressbook
>group vulnerability was discovered by dennis1993 and affects only
>version 1.0-git (not version 0.9.2). There is no direct statement that
>the addressbook group vulnerability was fixed. It seems likely that
>the addressbook group vulnerability could cross privilege boundaries
>if the "click on this group after creation" action were performed by
>an administrator who was visiting the addressbook of an unprivileged
>user.
>
>The other issues were discovered by und3r and affect version 0.9.2. At
>least one of these issues (JavaScript code in the signature) also
>affects version 1.0-git. There seems to be a dispute about whether
>this signature issue crosses privilege boundaries. Apparently a user
>can use the signature issue to attack himself, but there is no
>discussion of whether an administrator can visit the "identity
>configuration page" of an unprivileged user, and thereby become a
>victim of the XSS attack. The signature issue might be interpreted as
>a CVE-2012-4668 regression. Also, there is some indication that all of
>the issues discovered by und3r might have a root cause of 'This kind
>of problem is present in all parts where there is the "MCE" editor
>(or, more specifically, where there is a <textarea> with the CSS class
>"mce_editor").'
>
>Thus, so far, it seems that we should have one CVE for the addressbook
>group vulnerability, and one CVE for all of the vulnerabilities
>discovered by und3r. If anyone has established that the
>vulnerabilities discovered by und3r don't all have the same affected
>versions, please let us know. Also, if anyone thinks that the
>vulnerabilities discovered by und3r were actually the responsibility
>of a third-party product (such as TinyMCE), please mention that as
>well.

I didn't go digging that deep into it, but what you're saying makes
sense and still leaves us with a request for two CVEs.

Would you be able to assign them?   I didn't see the actual assignment
made in your reply.

Thanks.

-- 
Vincent Danen / Red Hat Security Response Team 

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Please check out the Open Source Software Security Wiki, which is counterpart to this mailing list.

Confused about mailing lists and their use? Read about mailing lists on Wikipedia and check out these guidelines on proper formatting of your messages.