Tlen.PL e-mail XSS vulnerability.
As written in: http://security.pass.pl/adv/160406_XSS_tlen_pl.txt
::File: 060416_XSS_tlen_pl
::Date: 16 Feb 2006
::Author: Tomasz Koperski <koper@xxxxxxx>
::URL: http://security.pass.pl
::1::Overview::
Tlen.PL e-mail system is affected to cross-site scripting vulnerability, not
validating HTML tags in e-mail message subject.
::2::Description::
Tlen.PL is a popular Polish IM system provided by o2.pl, which includes e-mail
accounts, and e-mail client built into the
communicator software (under Windows it is actualy an instance of Internet
Explorer, displaying webmail system).
Depending on the server 'assigned' to the account (varying probably by the date
of registration), webmail client does
not validate e-mail subject for HTML tags, allowing attacker to inject script
code.
The vulnerable server is accessed by default with Tlen.pl IM client (by older
accounts).
The vulnerable server does not provide webmail services through default web
browser access
(using for ex.: http://poczta.o2.pl, http://mail.tlen.pl), yet it is still
accessible under http://beta.mini.tlen.pl
and used inside Tlen.pl IM client.
On the account tested (login: koper, served by beta.mini.tlen.pl, 193.17.41.32,
registered over 5 years ago), the lenght of
subject displayed is 28 characters, which is the lenght an attacker can use to
inject HTML.
::3::Impact::
An attacker could include some of this code inside the subject field of e-mail
sent to the target account:
<iframe src="http://pass.pl";
//(28 chars, no HTML ending bracket, still http://pass.pl page is displayed
inside <iframe>,
//giving an attacker the ability to include more code. Having shorter domain
name allows an
//attacker to give valid <iframe> tag.
<script>alert("xx")</script>
//Displays 2 chars alert window
etc.
::4::Solution::
None provided, Vendor contacted on 16 Feb 2006.
::6::Systems affected::
All Tlen.pl Communicator versions, but not all accounts affected.
Servers checked to be vulnerable: beta.mini.tlen.pl [ 193.17.41.32 ].
Servers checked NOT to be vulnerable: mini10.tlen.pl [ 193.17.41.92 ].