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CVE-2007-2589

15
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-2589 describes a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in SquirrelMail versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.9a, specifically within the compose.php component. This flaw allows remote attackers to send emails from arbitrary users by manipulating the SRC attribute of an IMG element. With a CVSS score of 5.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N), it indicates a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring no authentication, and primarily impacting integrity by allowing unauthorized email sending. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:1.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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

5.0MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
NONE
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.37%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0137 is in the 50th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 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, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 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 (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3Fixed in: squirrelmail-0:1.4.8-6.el3
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: squirrelmail-0:1.4.8-4.0.1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: squirrelmail-0:1.4.8-4.0.1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-2589Moderate

CSRF through HTML message in squirrelmail

May 9, 2007

References

docs.info.apple.com / article.html
lists.apple.com / archives/security-announce//2007/Jul/msg00004.html
osvdb.org / 35889
secunia.com / advisories/25200
PatchVendor Advisory
secunia.com / advisories/25320
secunia.com / advisories/25787
secunia.com / advisories/26235
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/34219
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11448
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2007-0358.html
mandriva.com / security/advisories
novell.com / linux/security/advisories/2007_13_sr.html
securityfocus.com / bid/25159
squirrelmail.org / security/issue/2007-05-09
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/1748
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2732