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Message-ID: <13b3cbe365324cd9a9d6ba909477fe95@imshyb02.MITRE.ORG>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 13:57:19 -0500
From: <cve-assign@...re.org>
To: <hanno@...eck.de>
CC: <cve-assign@...re.org>, <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re: roundcube code execution via mail()

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> https://roundcube.net/news/2016/11/28/updates-1.2.3-and-1.1.7-released
> https://blog.ripstech.com/2016/roundcube-command-execution-via-email/

> https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/aa6bf38843f51a0fc7205acc98a7b84f3c4c9c4f
> https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/45a3e81653eb6ad3685d1a9ab817a61df78178eb

> highly critical because all default installations are affected

> When an email is sent with Roundcube, the HTTP request can be
> intercepted and altered. Here, the _from parameter can be modified in
> order to place a malicious PHP file on the file system.

Use CVE-2016-9920.


> a logical flaw in the application that causes the sanitization to fail

> the $from parameter is expected to have no whitespaces

> preg_match('/(\S+@\S+)/',

> another regular expression in line 863 which requires that the line
> ends ($) right after the email match. A payload used by an attacker
> does not have to match this regex

We do not feel that this regex discussion requires a second CVE. The
essence of the CVE-2016-9920 issue is that sendmail.inc detects
certain invalid envelope-from fields but does not do anything (such as
executing $from = null) about them.

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