CVE-2004-1993 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

The patch to the checklogin function in omail.pl for omail webmail 0.98.5 is incomplete, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters such as "`" (backticks) in the password.

Published: 2005-05-10

Score: 10.0 Critical

EPSS: 1.9% 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:omail:omail_webmail:0.97.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:omail:omail_webmail:0.98.3:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:omail:omail_webmail:0.98.5:::::::*

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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-2004-1985	The patch to the checklogin function in omail.pl for omail webmail 0.98.5 is incomplete, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters such as "`" (backticks) in the password.

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 0.0194.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108377215015515&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/9585
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10274
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/12948

History

No history.

Subscriptions

Omail Omail Webmail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-05-10T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T01:07:49.164Z

Reserved: 2005-05-04T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2004-1993

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-05-04T04:00:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2004-1993

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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