CVE-2019-12970 — XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1
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 v
Published
2019-07-01T10:32:05.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T23:41:09.227Z
01What is this vulnerability?
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.
02Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|
| n | a / n/a | n/a |
03Active exploitation status
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
04Recommended remediation
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
05Technical details
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
06Detection signatures
Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.
07Related CVEs
No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.
08Timeline
- Published: 2019-07-01T10:32:05.000Z
- Last modified: 2024-08-04T23:41:09.227Z
09References
- www.syss.de — https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.t…
- seclists.org — https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0
- packetstormsecurity.com — http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scrip…
- seclists.org — https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50
- lists.debian.org — https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
Want this in your SOAR or SIEM?
SARA's API returns EPSS, CVSS, KEV, and an analyst-grade summary in one call.
Read the API reference →