Bug 1611645 (CVE-2018-14950) - CVE-2018-14950 squirrelmail: persistent XSS in message display via a "<svg><a xlink:href="
Summary: CVE-2018-14950 squirrelmail: persistent XSS in message display via a "<svg><a...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-14950
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1616084 1616085
Blocks: 1611646
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-02 14:24 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-08-02 15:23:42 UTC
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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]
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