6.1
MEDIUM
CVE-2019-12970
SquirrelMail Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vuln
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 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.

INFO

Published Date :

July 1, 2019, 11:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

July 30, 2019, 9:15 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

2.7

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-12970 has a 1 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-12970 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Squirrelmail squirrelmail
2 Squirrelmail change_passwd
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-12970.

URL Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 Exploit Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50
https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt Exploit Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

Patches for Squirrelmail

Updated: 3 years, 5 months ago
1 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : July 26, 2018, 7:34 a.m. This repo has been linked 2 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-12970 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-12970 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Aug. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 30, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Jul. 02, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 Metadata Victim must voluntarily interact with attack mechanism
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 No Types Assigned https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt No Types Assigned https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt Exploit, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-79
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (including) 1.4.22 *cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions from (including) 1.5.0 up to (including) 1.5.2
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Jul. 01, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-12970 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-12970 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.71 }} -0.31%

score

0.80972

percentile

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