CVE-2002-0516 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

SquirrelMail 1.2.5 and earlier allows authenticated SquirrelMail users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the THEME variable in a cookie.

Published: 2003-04-02

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 5.8% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.2:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.4:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.2.5:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-0512	SquirrelMail 1.2.5 and earlier allows authenticated SquirrelMail users to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the THEME variable in a cookie.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Complete

Integrity Impact Complete

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05751.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0350.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0386.html
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/8671.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4385

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Squirrelmail Squirrelmail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T02:49:29.017Z

Reserved: 2002-06-07T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-0516

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2002-08-12T04:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-0516

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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