CVE-2020-35730

Roundcube Webmail: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

As of , CVE-2020-35730 in Roundcube Webmail is on CISA's list of exploited vulnerabilities: CISA listed it on . Our patch-first group: Patch soon.

Exploited
Yes: CISA listed it on 22 June 2023
US federal deadline
13 July 202321 days after CISA listed it. US federal civilian agencies must fix it by then.
Used in ransomware campaigns
Not known to CISA
EPSS score
0.33Higher than 98% of the CVEs EPSS scores. EPSS estimates the chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS when listed
0.00 on 22 June 2023EPSS on the day CISA listed it.
Public exploit
None foundNeither Metasploit nor Exploit-DB lists one.
Fix
Vendor advice: roundcube.netLinks below, from CISA's entry.

What CISA says to do

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

CISA's required action

What the flaw is

Roundcube Webmail contains a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that allows an attacker to send a plain text e-mail message with Javascript in a link reference element that is mishandled by linkref_addinindex in rcube_string_replacer.php.

CISA's description

An XSS issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.2.13, 1.3.x before 1.3.16, and 1.4.x before 1.4.10. The attacker can send a plain text e-mail message, with JavaScript in a link reference element that is mishandled by linkref_addindex in rcube_string_replacer.php.

The CVE record's description, from mitre

CVE published
28 December 2020
Assigned by
mitre
CVSS
6.1 Medium (CVSS 3.1, from CISA-ADP)
CWE-79
Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')
CISA SSVC, exploitation
active
CISA SSVC, automatable
no
CISA SSVC, technical impact
partial

Timeline

  1. The CVE record was published.
  2. CISA added it to its list of exploited vulnerabilities.
  3. The US federal deadline to fix it.

Roundcube Webmail: other exploited entries

VulnerabilityProductOur groupListedDeadlineEPSS
CVE-2017-16651File DisclosureRoundcube Roundcube WebmailPatch this weekMetasploit module0.46
CVE-2020-12641Remote Code ExecutionRoundcube Roundcube WebmailPatch this weekEPSS 0.840.84
CVE-2021-44026SQL InjectionRoundcube Roundcube WebmailPatch this weekEPSS 0.700.70

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