Vulnerabilities > CVE-2003-1481 - Information Exposure vulnerability in Stalker Communigate PRO

047910
CVSS 0.0 - NONE
Attack vector
UNKNOWN
Attack complexity
UNKNOWN
Privileges required
UNKNOWN
Confidentiality impact
UNKNOWN
Integrity impact
UNKNOWN
Availability impact
UNKNOWN
stalker
CWE-200
nessus
exploit available
NVD
Published: 2003-12-31
Updated: 2024-11-20

Summary

CommuniGate Pro 3.1 through 4.0.6 sends the session ID in the referer field for an HTTP request for an image, which allows remote attackers to hijack mail sessions via an e-mail with an IMG tag that references a malicious URL that captures the referer.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Stalker
14

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

  • Subverting Environment Variable Values
    The attacker directly or indirectly modifies environment variables used by or controlling the target software. The attacker's goal is to cause the target software to deviate from its expected operation in a manner that benefits the attacker.
  • Footprinting
    An attacker engages in probing and exploration activity to identify constituents and properties of the target. Footprinting is a general term to describe a variety of information gathering techniques, often used by attackers in preparation for some attack. It consists of using tools to learn as much as possible about the composition, configuration, and security mechanisms of the targeted application, system or network. Information that might be collected during a footprinting effort could include open ports, applications and their versions, network topology, and similar information. While footprinting is not intended to be damaging (although certain activities, such as network scans, can sometimes cause disruptions to vulnerable applications inadvertently) it may often pave the way for more damaging attacks.
  • Exploiting Trust in Client (aka Make the Client Invisible)
    An attack of this type exploits a programs' vulnerabilities in client/server communication channel authentication and data integrity. It leverages the implicit trust a server places in the client, or more importantly, that which the server believes is the client. An attacker executes this type of attack by placing themselves in the communication channel between client and server such that communication directly to the server is possible where the server believes it is communicating only with a valid client. There are numerous variations of this type of attack.
  • Browser Fingerprinting
    An attacker carefully crafts small snippets of Java Script to efficiently detect the type of browser the potential victim is using. Many web-based attacks need prior knowledge of the web browser including the version of browser to ensure successful exploitation of a vulnerability. Having this knowledge allows an attacker to target the victim with attacks that specifically exploit known or zero day weaknesses in the type and version of the browser used by the victim. Automating this process via Java Script as a part of the same delivery system used to exploit the browser is considered more efficient as the attacker can supply a browser fingerprinting method and integrate it with exploit code, all contained in Java Script and in response to the same web page request by the browser.
  • Session Credential Falsification through Prediction
    This attack targets predictable session ID in order to gain privileges. The attacker can predict the session ID used during a transaction to perform spoofing and session hijacking.

Exploit-Db

descriptionCommuniGate Pro Webmail 4.0.6 Session Hijacking Exploit. CVE-2003-1481. Remote exploit for linux platform
idEDB-ID:27
last seen2016-01-31
modified2003-05-05
published2003-05-05
reporterYaroslav Polyakov
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/27/
titleCommuniGate Pro Webmail 4.0.6 Session Hijacking Exploit

Nessus

NASL familyCGI abuses
NASL idCOMMUNIGATEPRO_REFERER_FIELD.NASL
descriptionThe remote install of CommuniGate Pro, according to its version number, is vulnerable to a flaw that could allow a remote attacker to access the mailbox of a targeted user. To exploit such a flaw, an attacker needs to send an email to its victim with a link to an image hosted on a rogue server that will store the Referer field sent by the user user-agent, which contains the credentials used to access the victim
last seen2020-06-01
modified2020-06-02
plugin id11567
published2003-05-05
reporterThis script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.
sourcehttps://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/11567
titleCommuniGate Pro Referer Field Session Token Disclosure
code
#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#


include("compat.inc");


if(description)
{
 script_id(11567);
 script_version ("1.18");

 script_cve_id("CVE-2003-1481");
 script_bugtraq_id(7501);

 script_name(english:"CommuniGate Pro Referer Field Session Token Disclosure");
 script_summary(english:"Checks the version of the remote CommunigatePro web Server");
 
 script_set_attribute(
   attribute:"synopsis",
   value:"The remote service has a session hijacking vulnerability."
 );
 script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value:
"The remote install of CommuniGate Pro, according to its version
number, is vulnerable to a flaw that could allow a remote attacker to
access the mailbox of a targeted user.

To exploit such a flaw, an attacker needs to send an email to its
victim with a link to an image hosted on a rogue server that will
store the Referer field sent by the user user-agent, which contains
the credentials used to access the victim's mailbox." );
 script_set_attribute(
   attribute:"see_also",
   value:"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2003/May/60"
 );
 script_set_attribute(
   attribute:"solution",
   value:"Upgrade to CommuniGate Pro version 4.1b2 or later."
 );
 script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N");
 script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:F/RL:OF/RC:C");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");
 script_cwe_id(200);
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value: "2003/05/05");
 script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/15 20:50:16");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"remote");
 script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe",value:"cpe:/a:communigate:communigate_pro_core_server");
 script_end_attributes();
 
 script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
 script_family(english:"CGI abuses");
 script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2003-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc.");
 script_dependencies("find_service1.nasl", "http_version.nasl", "no404.nasl");
 script_require_ports("Services/www", 80);
 exit(0);
}

########

include("global_settings.inc");
include("misc_func.inc");
include("http.inc");

port = get_http_port(default:80);

banner = get_http_banner(port:port);
if(!banner)exit(0);
if(egrep(pattern:"^Server: CommuniGatePro/([0-3]\.|4\.0|4\.1b1)", string:banner))security_warning(port);

References