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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.3

CVE-2008-2379 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a…

published 2008-12-05 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2374

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.8%
EPSS 1.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 78%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.17 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted hyperlink in an HTML part of an e-mail message.

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.8-8.el3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 4 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2
  • squirrelmail RHEL 5 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0010

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-2008-2379 updated

squirrelmail: XSS issue caused by an insufficient html mail sanitation

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.2
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-8.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0010

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Exploit prediction

1.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 78% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.