UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970

    Published: 1 Jul 2019Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2019-12970
    Aliases:
    USN-4669-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12970, https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt, http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html, https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4669-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12970

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: squirrelmail

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/squirrelmail@2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1

    Affected versions

    2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2
    2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1
    2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1
    2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3build0.14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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