Bug 1616086 (CVE-2018-14951) - CVE-2018-14951 squirrelmail: persistent XSS in message display via a "<form action='data:text"
Summary: CVE-2018-14951 squirrelmail: persistent XSS in message display via a "<form a...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2018-14951
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1616088 1616087
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-08-14 22:30 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2021-02-16 23:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-14 22:31:22 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-14 22:30:53 UTC 
The mail message display page in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 has XSS via a "<form action='data:text" 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 Laura Pardo 2018-08-14 22:31:02 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 2 Laura Pardo 2018-08-14 22:31:27 UTC 
Created squirrelmail tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1616088]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1616087]
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