Bug 1611645 (CVE-2018-14950)

Summary:	CVE-2018-14950 squirrelmail: persistent XSS in message display via a "<svg><a xlink:href="
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	lpardo, mhlavink
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Bug Depends On:	1616084, 1616085
Bug Blocks:	1611646

Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-08-02 14:24:07 UTC

The mail message display page in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 has XSS via a "<svg><a xlink:href=" attack.


Upstream bug:

https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrelmail/bugs/2831/

References:

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/2
https://github.com/hannob/squirrelpatches

Comment 1 Stefan Cornelius 2018-08-02 15:23:50 UTC

Statement:

This issue affects the versions of squirrelmail as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Extended Life Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

Comment 4 Laura Pardo 2018-08-14 22:26:47 UTC

Created squirrelmail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1616085]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1616084]