Cross-site Scripting (XSS) Affecting squirrelmail package, versions <2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2
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- published1 Jul 2019
- disclosed1 Jul 2019
Introduced: 1 Jul 2019
CVE-2019-12970 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 squirrelmail to version 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2 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 Ubuntu.
See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-12970
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-12970
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt