{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970","details":"XSS was discovered in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 and 1.5.x through 1.5.2. Due to improper handling of RCDATA and RAWTEXT type elements, the built-in sanitization mechanism can be bypassed. Malicious script content from HTML e-mail can be executed within the application context via crafted use of (for example) a NOEMBED, NOFRAMES, NOSCRIPT, or TEXTAREA element.","modified":"2026-02-04T02:15:53.802407Z","published":"2019-07-01T11:15:00Z","related":["USN-4669-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2019-12970"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-12970"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.syss.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Publikationen/Advisories/SYSS-2019-016.txt"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153495/SquirrelMail-1.4.22-Cross-Site-Scripting.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jul/0"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4669-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12970"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"squirrelmail","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/squirrelmail@2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1"}]}],"versions":["2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u1build0.14.04.1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2build0.14.04.1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3build0.14.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro","binaries":[{"binary_name":"squirrelmail","binary_version":"2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.14.04.1~esm1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970.json"}},{"package":{"name":"squirrelmail","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/squirrelmail@2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2"}]}],"versions":["2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2ubuntu1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2ubuntu1.16.04.1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u1ubuntu0.16.04.1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2build0.16.04.1","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2ubuntu0.16.04.2","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u2ubuntu0.16.04.3","2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"availability":"No subscription required","binaries":[{"binary_name":"squirrelmail","binary_version":"2:1.4.23~svn20120406-2+deb8u3ubuntu0.16.04.2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2019/UBUNTU-CVE-2019-12970.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}