Title: DBMail IMAP Service SQL Injection Vulnerability
Severity: MODERATE
Description:
dbmail is a set of applications used for storing and retrieving e-mail messages from a database. dbmail supports MySQL or PostgreSQL databases.
A vulnerability has been reported to exist in dbmail IMAP service that may allow a remote attacker to inject malicious SQL syntax into database queries. The source of this issue is insufficient sanitization of user-supplied input.
The problem is reported to exist in various parameters such as username and password. It has been reported that the vulnerable parameters are not sanitized for user-supplied input before it is included in the database. A remote attacker may exploit this issue to influence SQL query logic while attempting to authenticate to the server.
A malicious user may influence database queries in order to view or modify sensitive information, potentially compromising the software or the database.
dbmail versions 1.1 and prior have been reported to be prone to this issue, however other versions may be affected as well.
Affected Products:
- dbmail dbmail 1.0.0
- dbmail dbmail 1.1.0
References:
- dbmail: dbmail Home page
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