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CVE-2016-4068 json

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitra…

published 2017-04-13 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-5069

cvss
6.1
version 3.0, 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

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail before 1.0.9 and 1.1.x before 1.1.5 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via a crafted SVG, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8864.

Patch / fix

  • roundcube Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.2.1+dfsg.1-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2016-4068

  • roundcube Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS 1.2~beta+dfsg.1-0ubuntu1+esm7

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2016-4068

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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-2016-4068 updated cvss 4.3

roundcubemail: security issues fixed in version 1.0.9

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

Exploit prediction

2.50% 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 3.0 6.1 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
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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