Courier Authentication Library Postgres SQL injection
| courier-library-postgres-sql-injection (47494) |  Medium Risk |
Description:
Courier Authentication Library is vulnerable to SQL injection. If a Postgres database is used for authentication and a Non-Latin character set is selected, a remote attacker could send specially-crafted SQL statements to the library, which could allow the attacker to view, add, modify or delete information in the back-end database.
*CVSS:
| Base Score: | 5.1 |
| Access Vector: | Network |
| Access Complexity: | High |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | Partial |
| Integrity Impact: | Partial |
| Availability Impact: | Partial |
| Temporal Score: | 4.4 |
| Exploitability: | High |
| Remediation Level: | Official-Fix |
| Report Confidence: | Confirmed |
Consequences:
Data Manipulation
Remedy:
Upgrade to the latest version of Courier Authentication Library (0.62.0 or later), available from the Courier Web site. See References.
References:
- Courier Web site: Courier-Authlib ChangeLog.
- BID-32926: Courier-Authlib Non-Latin Character Handling Postgres SQL Injection Vulnerability
- CVE-2008-2380: SQL injection vulnerability in authpgsqllib.c in Courier-Authlib before 0.62.0, when a non-Latin locale Postgres database is used, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL commands via query parameters containing apostrophes.
- DSA-1688: courier-authlib -- SQL injection
- GLSA-200903-25: Courier Authentication Library: SQL Injection vulnerability
- SA33235: Courier Authentication Library Postgres SQL Injection Vulnerability
- SUSE-SR:2009:001: SUSE Security Summary Report
Platforms Affected:
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.52
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.53
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.54
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.55
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.56
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.57
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.58
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.59
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.59.1
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.59.2
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.59.3
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.1
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.2
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.3
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.4
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.5
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.60.6
- Courier Courier authentication library 0.61.1
- Debian Debian Linux 4.0
- Gentoo Linux
Reported:
Dec 17, 2008
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