Government Emails at Risk: Critical Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability in Roundcube Webmail
- Sonar’s Vulnerability Research Team recently discovered a critical Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Roundcube, a popular open-source webmail software. When a victim views a malicious email in Roundcube sent by an attacker, the attacker can execute arbitrary JavaScript in the victim's browser. Attackers can abuse the vulnerability to steal emails, contacts, and the victim's email password as well as send emails from the victim's account. In October 2023, ESET Research reported that a similar vulnerability was actively used by the APT group Winter Vivern to attack European government entities. Roundcube administrators should update to the patched version 1.6.8 or 1.5.8 as soon as possible. * All discovered issues are tracked as CVE-2024-42008, CVE-2024-42009, CVE-2024-42010.
