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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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  1. Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-6142 Detail

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."


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

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Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (03/14/2007)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is not vulnerable to this issue as it contains a backported patch.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc CVE, MITRE
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306172 CVE, MITRE
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2438 CVE, MITRE
http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2439 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23195 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23322 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23409 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23504 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23811 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/24004 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/24284 CVE, MITRE
http://secunia.com/advisories/26235 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017327 CVE, MITRE
http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=468482 CVE, MITRE
http://squirrelmail.org/security/issue/2006-12-02 CVE, MITRE
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1241 CVE, MITRE
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:226 CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0022.html CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21414 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25159 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4828 CVE, MITRE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2732 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30693 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30694 CVE, MITRE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30695 CVE, MITRE
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-849 CVE, MITRE
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9988 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-6142
NVD Published Date:
12/05/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
MITRE