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medium 4.3

CVE-2009-1578 json

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject a…

published 2009-05-14 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1574

cvss
4.3
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decrypt_headers.php; (2) PHP_SELF; and (3) the query string (aka QUERY_STRING).

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.8-13.el3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 4 1.4.8-5.el4_8.5
  • squirrelmail RHEL 5 1.4.8-5.el5_3.7

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:1066

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-2009-1578 updated cvss 4.3

SquirrelMail: Multiple cross site scripting issues

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-13.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_3.7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-13.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_8.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_8.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_3.7
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-13.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_8.5 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-13.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_8.5
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:1066

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Exploit prediction

1.98% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • mandriva.com http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:110 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

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

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