CVE-2009-1578
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 2.0%EU EUVD
Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail before 1.4.18 and NaSMail before 1.7 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via vectors involving (1) certain encrypted strings in e-mail headers, related to contrib/decrypt_headers.php; (2) PHP_SELF; and (3) the query string (aka QUERY_STRING).
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-79
- EPSS score
- 2.0% (81th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-1574)
- Published
- May 14, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-1574 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
- squirrelmail / squirrelmail
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References
- http://download.gna.org/nasmail/nasmail-1.7.zip
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2010//Jun/msg00001.html
- http://osvdb.org/60468
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35052(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35073(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35140
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35259
- http://secunia.com/advisories/37415
- http://secunia.com/advisories/40220
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/contrib/decrypt_headers.php?r1=13672&r2=13671&pathrev=13672(Patch)
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/doc/ChangeLog(Patch)
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail/branches/SM-1_4-STABLE/squirrelmail/functions/global.php?r1=13670&r2=13669&pathrev=13670(Patch)
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13670(Patch)
- http://squirrelmail.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/squirrelmail?view=rev&revision=13672(Patch)
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4188
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1802
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:110(Exploit, Patch)
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-1066.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/34916(Patch)
- http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-08(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2009-05-09(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1296(Patch, Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/3315
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1481
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500363
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50459
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50460
- https://gna.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=2146
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11624
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00566.html(Patch)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00572.html
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-May/msg00577.html(Patch)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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