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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2020-12625

An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4. There is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in rcube_washtml.php because JavaScript code can occur in the CDATA of an HTML message.

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CVE-2020-12625

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 May 2020, 02:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4. There is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in rcube_washtml.php because JavaScript code can occur in the CDATA of an HTML message.

osv:CVE-2020-12625
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-12625",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2020-12625",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.4.4. There is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in rcube_washtml.php because JavaScript code can occur in the CDATA of an HTML message.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-12625",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        "CVE-2020-12625"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N"
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              "type": "GIT",
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                {
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                },
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                  "fixed": "87e4cd0cf2c550e77586860b94e5c75d2b7686d0"
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              ],
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        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202007-41",
        "https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4674",
        "https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/87e4cd0cf2c550e77586860b94e5c75d2b7686d0",
        "https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/compare/1.4.3...1.4.4",
        "https://github.com/DrunkenShells/Disclosures/tree/master/CVE-2020-12625-Cross%20Site-Scripting%20via%20Malicious%20HTML%20Attachment-Roundcube"
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              "cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382918,
  "published_at": "2020-05-04T02:15:11.52+00:00"
}