[SA18868] Squishdot Mail Header Injection Vulnerability

TITLE:
Squishdot Mail Header Injection Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA18868

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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Security Bypass

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
Squishdot 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/8080/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in Squishdot, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.

Input passed to certain parameters in the "mail_html" template isn't
properly sanitised before being used to construct an email message.
This can be exploited to inject arbitrary email headers by inserting
newline characters in the parameters.

Successful exploitation allows the sending of spam messages from the
server.

The vulnerability has been reported in version 1.5. Prior versions
may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Apply patch for Squishdot_mail_html.dtml.
http://www.squishdot.org/1139510883

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Garikoitz Araolaza.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.squishdot.org/1139510883

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