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CVE-2024-42008

49
FAUCET Score

CVE-2024-42008 is a critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability affecting Roundcube webmail versions through 1.5.7 and 1.6.x through 1.6.7. This flaw allows a remote attacker to steal and send a victim's emails by crafting a malicious email attachment with a dangerous Content-Type header. With a CVSS score of 9.3 (CRITICAL) and a FAUCET Risk Score of 98/100, the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low attack complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community discussion, with technical details regarding desanitization, unsafe Content-Types, and CSS exfiltration being shared.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 1.5.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 1.6.0, < 1.6.8CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

9.3CRITICAL

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

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.8
Impact Score
5.8
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
34.21%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.3421 is in the 99th percentile among its peer group of 836 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.8 Bluesky, 0.5 Mastodon, and 1.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.1 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: roundcube (bionic)Fixed in: 1.3.6+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm8
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: roundcube (focal)Fixed in: 1.4.3+dfsg.1-1ubuntu0.1~esm8
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: roundcube (jammy)Fixed in: 1.5.0+dfsg.1-2ubuntu0.1~esm6
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: roundcube (noble)Fixed in: 1.6.6+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1+esm3
ubuntupatch availablevia ubuntu_usn
Product: roundcube (xenial)Fixed in: 1.2~beta+dfsg.1-0ubuntu1+esm8

Vendor Advisories (1)

ubuntuUSN-8223-1

Roundcube Webmail vulnerabilities

Apr 29, 2026

References

github.com / roundcube/roundcubemail/releases
Release Notes
github.com / roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.5.8
Release Notes
github.com / roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.6.8
Release Notes
roundcube.net / news/2024/08/04/security-updates-1.6.8-and-1.5.8
Vendor Advisory
sonarsource.com / blog/government-emails-at-risk-critical-cross-site-scripting-vulnerability-in-roundcube-webmail
Technical Description