CVE-2005-2769 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in SqWebMail 5.0.4 and possibly other versions allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via an HTML e-mail containing tags with strings that contain ">" or other special characters, which is not properly sanitized by SqWebMail.

Published: 2005-09-02

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: 11.0% Moderate

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:inter7:sqwebmail:5.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
Ubuntu USN	USN-201-1	SqWebmail vulnerabilities

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.10952.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112534112715638&w=2
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2005/Aug/975
http://secunia.com/advisories/16600/
http://secunia.com/advisories/17156
http://secunia.com/secunia_research/2005-39/advisory/
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14676
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-201-1
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/22043

History

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Subscriptions

Inter7 Sqwebmail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2005-09-02T04:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T22:45:02.351Z

Reserved: 2005-09-02T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2005-2769

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2005-09-02T23:03:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2005-2769

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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