Vulnerability in handling _session argument of utils/save-prefs action

[rcubetrac]

Reported by @alecpl on 17 Oct 2013 08:14 UTC as Trac ticket #1489382

It is possible to overwrite any variable in $_SESSION. This gives an attacker a lot of possibilities.

Migrated-From: http://trac.roundcube.net/ticket/1489382

[rcubetrac]

Comment by @alecpl on 17 Oct 2013 08:26 UTC

Fixed in 70c7df8 and backported to all release branches down to 0.7.

[rcubetrac]

Status changed by @alecpl on 17 Oct 2013 08:26 UTC

new => closed

[rcubetrac]

Comment by @thomascube on 20 Feb 2014 14:04 UTC

CVE number for this is: CVE-2013-6172

The update notification with links to patches can be found here: http://roundcube.net/news/2013/10/21/security-updates-095-and-087/

[HaToan]

CVE-2013-6172. steps/utils/save_pref.inc in Roundcube webmail before 0.8.7 and 0.9.x before 0.9.5 allows remote attackers to modify configuration settings via the _session parameter, which can be leveraged to read arbitrary files, conduct SQL injection attacks, and execute arbitrary code.
Help me! find function contain vulnerbility "read arbitrary files" ?.
Thank you.

[alecpl]

We don't really support these old versions. Here's the commit: 70c7df8.