CVE - CVE-2019-12970

CVE-ID
CVE-2019-12970	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
BUGTRAQ:20190701 [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSS URL:https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0 BUGTRAQ:20190730 [SYSS-2019-016] SquirrelMail script filter bypass/XSS (update) URL:https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/50 MISC:http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html MISC:https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt MLIST:[debian-lts-announce] 20190801 [SECURITY] [DLA 1868-1] squirrelmail security update URL:https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00000.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20190626	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20190626)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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