Cross-site request forgery in Roundcube Webmail - CVE-2020-12626
Published: May 4, 2020 / Updated: June 11, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU27500
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-12626
CWE-ID: CWE-352
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as cause an authenticated user to be logged out because POST was not considered.
Affected software
Roundcube Webmail
Gentoo Linux
roundcube (Debian package)
Gentoo Linux
roundcube (Debian package)
How to mitigate CVE-2020-12626
Install update from vendor's website.
Roundcube Webmail - addressed in versions 1.2.10, 1.3.11, 1.4.4
roundcube (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1.2.3+dfsg.1-4+deb9u4, 1.3.11+dfsg.1-1~deb10u1, 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1, 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1
roundcube (Debian package) - addressed in versions 1.2.3+dfsg.1-4+deb9u4, 1.3.11+dfsg.1-1~deb10u1, 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1, 1.4.4+dfsg.1-1~bpo10+1
External References
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/9bbda422ff0b782b81de59c86994f1a5fd93f8e6
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/compare/1.4.3...1.4.4
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/pull/7302
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.4.4
- https://roundcube.net/news/2020/04/29/security-updates-1.4.4-1.3.11-and-1.2.10