Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting squirrelmail package, versions <2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u4


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.65% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN8-SQUIRRELMAIL-451328
  • published1 Jul 2019
  • disclosed1 Jul 2019

Introduced: 1 Jul 2019

CVE-2019-12970  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-79  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 squirrelmail to version 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream squirrelmail package and not the squirrelmail package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.