[UNIX] BasiliX Command Execution Vulnerability (username)

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Date: 09/10/01


From: support@securiteam.com
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Subject: [UNIX] BasiliX Command Execution Vulnerability (username)
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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 20:46:26 +0200 (CEST)

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  BasiliX Command Execution Vulnerability (username)
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SUMMARY

 <http://www.basilix.org/> BasiliX is a webmail application based on PHP
and IMAP, and powered with the MySQL database server. A security
vulnerability in the product allows attackers to execute arbitrary
commands with the security privileges of the running web server.

DETAILS

Vulnerable systems:
BasiliX version 1.0.2/3 (Series)

There is a bug in BasiliX package that allows executing any command on the
target system.

Vulnerable code:
From file login.php3 :
$atch_dir = $BSX_ATCH_DIR . "/" . "$IMAP_DOMAIN" . "/" ."$username";

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