[NEWS] Mail.com Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

From: support@securiteam.com
Date: 01/13/02 

From: support@securiteam.com
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Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 14:00:33 +0100 (CET)

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  Mail.com Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability
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SUMMARY

Mail.com offers free webmail services, which are used by tens of thousands
of people around the world. The site suffers from a CSS vulnerability,
giving a malicious user the ability to view the site cookies of any user
currently logged in.

DETAILS

Impact:
If a malicious user can get the mail.com user to follow a simple link,
then they can grab that users mail.com cookies and possibly use them to
authenticate as that user.

Example:
Log into your mail.com account, and then go to:
http://mymail.mail.com/scripts/common/forgotpasswd.cgi?login=><scripts>document.writeln(document.cookie)</scripts --></p>

Vendor response:
The issue was fixed as of 4th of January 2002.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

The information has been provided by <http://www.ministryofpeace.co.uk>
Ministry-of-Peace.

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