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Suggest Exploit
vendor:
Eudora MTA
by:
SecurityFocus
2.6
CVSS
LOW
URI Obfuscation Weakness
20
CWE
Product Name: Eudora MTA
Affected Version From: N/A
Affected Version To: N/A
Patch Exists: NO
Related CWE: N/A
CPE: N/A
Metasploit: N/A
Other Scripts: N/A
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Platforms Tested: N/A
2002

Qualcomm Eudora MTA URI Obfuscation Weakness

It has been reported that the Qualcomm Eudora MTA is prone to a URI obfuscation weakness that may hide the true contents of a link. The problem occurs when a user@location URI is formatted in such a way that a "^A" control character is located after the user value. The user value may then be appended with space characters to obfuscate status bar and mouseover details. It is said that, when doing a mouseover of such a URI, it will cause the status bar to only display the contents of the user value, not the entire link.

Mitigation:

It is recommended that users avoid clicking on links that appear suspicious or that are sent from untrusted sources.
Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10305/info

It has been reported that the Qualcomm Eudora MTA is prone to a URI obfuscation weakness that may hide the true contents of a link. The problem occurs when a user@location URI is formatted in such a way that a "^A" control character is located after the user value. The user value may then be appended with space characters to obfuscate status bar and mouseover details. It is said that, when doing a mouseover of such a URI, it will cause the status bar to only display the contents of the user value, not the entire link.

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style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>http://www.e-gold.com/alert</span></a><br>

Where example.com, reads egegold.com.