Title: MHonArc m2h_text_html Filter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
Severity: HIGH
Description:
MHonArc is a Perl program designed to automatically parse email into a HTML based archive format.
A cross site scripting vulnerability has been reported for MHonArc.
A specially crafted HTML mail messages may be able to bypass existing HTML filtering techniques imposed by MHonArc. Any MHonArc archives that allow HTML content are vulnerable to this issue.
It has been reported that the vulnerability exists in the m2h_text_html::filter. Reportedly, the filter does not adequately remove, or strip, malicious HTML code from email messages.
This vulnerability has been reported to affect all versions of MHonArc 2.5.13 and earlier.
Affected Products:
- Debian Linux 2.2.0
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 68k
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 IA-32
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 arm
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 powerpc
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 pre potato
- Debian Linux 2.2.0 sparc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 alpha
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 arm
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 hppa
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-32
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ia-64
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 m68k
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mips
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 mipsel
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 ppc
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 s/390
- Debian Linux 3.0.0 sparc
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.4.4
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.0
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.1
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.11
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.12
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.13
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.2
- MHonArc MHonArc 2.5.3
References:
- Earl Hood <earl@earlhood.com>: MHonArc Security Advisory: XSS vulnerability with HTML messages
- MHonArc: MHonArc Homepage
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