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CVE-2006-6142

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2006-6142 describes multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.9. These flaws allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML through various parameters in webmail.php and compose.php, as well as via an unspecified weakness in the magicHTML filter. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 6.8, indicating a medium severity with a network attack vector, medium attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.4.3_r3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.3_r3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.8MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
8.6
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
2.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
81.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0230 is in the 70th percentile among its peer group of 19,958 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

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

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: squirrelmail-0:1.4.8-4.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: squirrelmail-0:1.4.8-4.el4
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2006-6142Moderate

Three XSS issues in SquirrelMail

Dec 2, 2006

References

patches.sgi.com / support/free/security/advisories/20070201-01-P.asc
docs.info.apple.com / article.html
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2438
fedoranews.org / cms/node/2439
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
secunia.com / advisories/23195
secunia.com / advisories/23322
secunia.com / advisories/23409
secunia.com / advisories/23504
secunia.com / advisories/23811
secunia.com / advisories/24004
secunia.com / advisories/24284
secunia.com / advisories/26235
securitytracker.com / id
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30693
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30694
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/30695
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-849
sourceforge.net / project/shownotes.php
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9988
squirrelmail.org / security/issue/2006-12-02
debian.org / security/2006/dsa-1241
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2006_29_sr.html
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_4_sr.html
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0022.html
securityfocus.com / bid/21414
securityfocus.com / bid/25159
vupen.com / english/advisories/2006/4828
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2732