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FKIE_CVE-2023-43770

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-09-22 06:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:26
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Summary
Roundcube before 1.4.14, 1.5.x before 1.5.4, and 1.6.x before 1.6.3 allows XSS via text/plain e-mail messages with crafted links because of program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_string_replacer.php behavior.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/e92ec206a886461245e1672d8530cc93c618a49bPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00024.htmlMailing List
cve@mitre.orghttps://roundcube.net/news/2023/09/15/security-update-1.6.3-releasedRelease Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/e92ec206a886461245e1672d8530cc93c618a49bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00024.htmlMailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://roundcube.net/news/2023/09/15/security-update-1.6.3-releasedRelease Notes
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2023-43770US Government Resource
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
roundcube webmail *
roundcube webmail *
roundcube webmail *
debian debian_linux 10.0
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