CVE-2019-12970

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-12970
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-07-01 11:15:00 UTC
Updated2019-07-30 09:15:00 UTC
DescriptionXSS 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-79

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Squirrelmail Squirrelmail All All All All
Application Squirrelmail Squirrelmail All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
SquirrelMail 1.4.22 Cross Site Scripting ≈ Packet Storm MISC packetstormsecurity.com Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Bugtraq: [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSS BUGTRAQ seclists.org Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt MISC www.syss.de Exploit, Third Party Advisory
Bugtraq: [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSS (update) BUGTRAQ seclists.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 1868-1] squirrelmail security update MLIST lists.debian.org
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