Deserialization of Untrusted Data Affecting roundcube/roundcubemail package, versions <1.5.14>=1.6-beta, <1.6.14>=1.7-beta, <1.7-rc5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.03% (9th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PHP-ROUNDCUBEROUNDCUBEMAIL-15911934
  • published6 Apr 2026
  • disclosed3 Apr 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 3 Apr 2026

NewCVE-2026-35537  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-502  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade roundcube/roundcubemail to version 1.5.14, 1.6.14, 1.7-rc5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data in the session handler for redis and memcache. An attacker can perform arbitrary file write operations by submitting crafted session data.

Details

Serialization is a process of converting an object into a sequence of bytes which can be persisted to a disk or database or can be sent through streams. The reverse process of creating object from sequence of bytes is called deserialization. Serialization is commonly used for communication (sharing objects between multiple hosts) and persistence (store the object state in a file or a database). It is an integral part of popular protocols like Remote Method Invocation (RMI), Java Management Extension (JMX), Java Messaging System (JMS), Action Message Format (AMF), Java Server Faces (JSF) ViewState, etc.

Deserialization of untrusted data (CWE-502) is when the application deserializes untrusted data without sufficiently verifying that the resulting data will be valid, thus allowing the attacker to control the state or the flow of the execution.

CVSS Base Scores

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version 3.1