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CVE-2023-43770

85
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-43770 is a Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Roundcube webmail versions before 1.4.14, 1.5.4, and 1.6.3, specifically impacting the handling of crafted links within plain text email messages. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.1) can be exploited remotely with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and could lead to information disclosure and limited integrity impact. Notably, this CVE is actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by its inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog, and has garnered significant community discussion and media coverage, including reports of Russian APT groups leveraging it in targeted attacks. Despite active exploitation, no public exploit code is currently available on platforms like Metasploit or ExploitDB.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.4.14CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.5.0, < 1.5.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.1MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
58.48%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
99.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
Added to KEV · Feb 12, 2024
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.5848 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 26,220 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

References

cisa.gov / known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
US Government Resource
github.com / roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/e92ec206a886461245e1672d8530cc93c618a49b
Patch
lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/09/msg00024.html
Mailing List
roundcube.net / news/2023/09/15/security-update-1.6.3-released
Release Notes