CVE-2019-12970
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
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 1.81% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 78.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 6.1 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2019-07-01 10:32Z7 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 23:41Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2019-06-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 5f6e32f0d411e7943b69b6eefea1259d07b718f318be5ef8bc3492005d90405f
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.syss.dehttps://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt
- seclists.org20190701 [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSShttps://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0
- packetstormsecurity.comhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html
- seclists.org20190730 [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSS (update)https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20190801 [SECURITY] [DLA 1868-1] squirrelmail security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
07 Fixed in
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- squirrelmail Fixed in 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS
- squirrelmail Fixed in 2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.