CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-12970
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-07-01
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.
Affected configurations
• squirrelmail squirrelmail (<= 1.4.22)
• squirrelmail squirrelmail (>= 1.5.0 <= 1.5.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50 seclists.org
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html lists.debian.org
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50 seclists.org
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory