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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2006-6142 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web scri…

published 2006-12-05 19 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-6125

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mailto parameter in (a) webmail.php, the (2) session and (3) delete_draft parameters in (b) compose.php, and (4) unspecified vectors involving "a shortcoming in the magicHTML filter."

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.8-4.el3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 4 1.4.8-4.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2007:0022

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-2006-6142 updated

Three XSS issues in SquirrelMail

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el4
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-4.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2007:0022

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Exploit prediction

2.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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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