Secunia Security Advisory - A vulnerability has been reported in eGroupWare, which can be exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security restrictions.
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TITLE:
eGroupWare HTML Filter Bypass Vulnerability
SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA29491
VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/29491/
CRITICAL:
Less critical
IMPACT:
Security Bypass
WHERE:
>From remote
SOFTWARE:
eGroupWare 1.x
http://secunia.com/product/3822/
DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in eGroupWare, which can be
exploited by malicious people to bypass certain security
restrictions.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error within the
"_bad_protocol_once()" function in phpgwapi/inc/class.kses.inc.php
and can be exploited to bypass HTML filtering policies.
The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 1.4.003.
SOLUTION:
Update to version 1.4.003.
PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits lukasz.pilorz.
ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.egroupware.org/changelog
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