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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.8

CVE-2009-1580 json

Session fixation vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via a crafted cookie.

published 2009-05-14 17 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2009-1576

cvss
5.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 79%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Session fixation vulnerability in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 allows remote attackers to hijack web sessions via a crafted cookie.

Patch / fix

  • squirrelmail RHEL 3 1.4.8-9.el3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 4 1.4.8-5.el4_7.3
  • squirrelmail RHEL 5 1.4.8-5.el5_2.3

red hat advisories RHSA-2009:0057

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-2009-1580 updated cvss 4.0

SquirrelMail: Session fixation vulnerability

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-9.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-9.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop Workstation (v. 5 client) squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el5_2.3
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-9.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 squirrelmail 1.4.8-9.el3 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 squirrelmail 1.4.8-5.el4_7.3
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2009:0057

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Exploit prediction

1.85% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 79% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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