Name: CVE-2019-12970: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-07-01T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-12970, CWE-79, CVSS 6.1, EPSS 0.00925

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 6.1
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Debian	—	Upgrade squirrelmail	Aug 6, 2019	Jul 1, 2019
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Jul 1, 2019
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade squirrelmail	Dec 11, 2020	Jul 1, 2019

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CVSS Details

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