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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2004-0519 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users…

published 2004-06-03 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0518

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.5%
EPSS 22.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB, plus a Nuclei check

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.2 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary script as other users and possibly steal authentication information via multiple attack vectors, including the mailbox parameter in compose.php.

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.3-0.e3.1

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:240

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0519 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.3-0.e3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.3-0.e3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.3-0.e3.1 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.3-0.e3.1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:240

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-24068)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

22.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-24068 SquirrelMail 1.4.x - Folder Name Cross-Site Scripting webapps, 2004-04-30
  • Nuclei template SquirrelMail 1.4.x - Folder Name Cross-Site Scripting nuclei detection template
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10246 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

References

Sources

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