CVE-2006-6142

MEDIUM 6.8CVE-2006-6142 · Published 05/12/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-6142 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 6.8) vulnerability affecting squirrelmail (squirrelmail).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 2.4%, higher than 83.8% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
squirrelmail squirrelmail	`= 1.4= 1.4.1= 1.4.2= 1.4.3= 1.4.3_r3= 1.4.3_rc1= 1.4.3aa= 1.4.4= 1.4.4_rc1= 1.4.5= 1.4.6= 1.4.6_cvs= 1.4.6_rc1= 1.4.7= 1.4_rc1`	No fix yet

Description

Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail 1.4.0 through 1.4.9 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the (1) mailto parameter in (a) webmail.php, the (2) session and (3) delete_draft parameters in (b) compose.php, and (4) unspecified vectors involving "a shortcoming in the magicHTML filter."

References

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