CVE-2018-14953 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

The mail message display page in SquirrelMail through 1.4.22 has XSS via a "<math xlink:href=" attack.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.01431.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Squirrelmail	Squirrelmail

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:squirrelmail:squirrelmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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References

Link	Providers
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2018/07/26/2
https://bugs.debian.org/905023
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/CVXTYMZ35IC5KPNMAE6BWAQWURMX7KZO/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/T5FP5O562A4FM5TCFNEW73SS6PZONSAC/
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14953
https://sourceforge.net/p/squirrelmail/bugs/2831/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-14953

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00479}`	epss `{'score': 0.00493}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2018-08-05T18:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T09:46:25.308Z

Reserved: 2018-08-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2018-14953

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2018-08-05T18:29:00.817

Modified: 2026-06-17T01:41:57.160

Link: CVE-2018-14953

Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2018-07-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2018-14953 - Bugzilla

OpenCVE Enrichment

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