Cross-site scripting in Roundcube Webmail - CVE-2015-1433

 

Cross-site scripting in Roundcube Webmail - CVE-2015-1433

Published: February 3, 2015 / Updated: July 28, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU32442
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1433
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. The vulnerability allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks via the style attribute in an email.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

Roundcube Webmail
roundcubemail (Alpine package)
roundcubemail
Fedora

How to mitigate CVE-2015-1433

Update to version 1.0.5.

Roundcube Webmail - update to 1.0.5
roundcubemail (Alpine package) - update to 1.0.5-r0
roundcubemail - addressed in versions 1.0.5-1.el6, 1.0.5-1.el7, 1.0.5-1.fc21

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