CVE-2019-12970
Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-79
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Publication date:
01/07/2019
Last modified:
30/07/2019
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.
Impact
Base Score 3.x
6.10
Severity 3.x
MEDIUM
Base Score 2.0
4.30
Severity 2.0
MEDIUM
Vulnerable products and versions
| CPE | From | Up to |
|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.4.22 (including) | |
| cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 1.5.0 (including) | 1.5.2 (including) |
To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0
- https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50
- https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt



