CVE-2004-0520 EXPLOIT
6.8
MEDIUM · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 7.1% (pctl 94)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
Description
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in mime.php for SquirrelMail before 1.4.3 allows remote attackers to insert arbitrary HTML and script via the content-type mail header, as demonstrated using read_body.php.
Scoring
| CVSS | 6.8 (MEDIUM, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 7.13% — more likely to be exploited than 94% of all CVEs |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2004-08-18 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| open webmail | open webmail |
| sgi | propack |
| squirrelmail | squirrelmail |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | SquirrelMail 1.x - Email Header HTML Injection | 2004-05-31 |
References
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000858
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108611554415078&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=squirrelmail-cvs&m=108532891231712
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-240.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/11870
- http://secunia.com/advisories/12289
- http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-535
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200406-08.xml
- http://www.rs-labs.com/adv/RS-Labs-Advisory-2004-1.txt
- http://www.securityfocus.com/advisories/6827
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10439
- https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=1733
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1012
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10766
- ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20040604-01-U.asc
- http://distro.conectiva.com.br/atualizacoes/?id=a&anuncio=000858
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=108611554415078&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=squirrelmail-cvs&m=108532891231712
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2004-240.html
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