Attack ChainAIDerived
Hypothetical attack flow derived from CVE metadata – not a confirmed exploit chain
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AccessAuthenticate to Roundcube with valid credentials
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ExploitIdentify an action blocked by disabled_actions
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ExecutionRequest it via its deprecated alias name
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ImpactBypass access check and reach disabled action
Vulnerability Assessment
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CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A01:2025 - Broken Access Control
ASVS 5.0
V8 - Authorization Authorization logic validation
MITRE ATT&CK
1 technique across 1 tactic: Privilege Escalation The technique list with ATT&CK links and the kill-chain view is part of the Basic plan and up. |
| Exploitation Conditions | Exploitation requires that the administrator has explicitly configured the non-default 'disabled_actions' setting to block one or more actions; on a default install this list is empty and there is nothing to bypass. The attacker must be a remote but authenticated Roundcube user (PR:L), and must know the deprecated alias name of a disabled action, since the pre-patch check compared only the requested action name without resolving aliases. Limiting factors: no effect without the disabled_actions hardening in place, valid credentials are mandatory, no user interaction of a victim is needed, and the impact is confined to reaching an otherwise-restricted action (integrity-only, no data disclosure or denial of service). Affected versions are Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5. |
| Impact | This is a genuinely low-priority issue, and the signals are internally consistent rather than conflicting. The CVSS 3.1 vector (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N, base 3.1) describes a network-reachable but high-complexity, authenticated-only flaw with no confidentiality or availability impact and only limited integrity impact - matching CWE-863 (Incorrect Authorization). No EPSS score, CISA KEV listing, or public exploit was provided in the input; exploitation status is therefore 'no public exploit identified at time of analysis.' Critically, the flaw only has any effect when an administrator has explicitly populated the non-default 'disabled_actions' configuration setting - on a default Roundcube install this setting is empty, so there is nothing to bypass. The real-world risk is low: the attacker must already hold valid webmail credentials, the target must have deliberately hardened specific actions via disabled_actions, and the only payoff is regaining access to an action the admin tried to hide (not privilege escalation or data theft beyond what that action already exposes). This is a defense-in-depth hardening fix, not an externally weaponizable vulnerability. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | In a Roundcube deployment where an administrator has restricted certain actions via the disabled_actions setting, an authenticated user who should not reach a blocked action instead requests that action through its deprecated alias name, which the pre-patch access check failed to resolve, thereby reaching the disabled functionality. No public exploit code was identified in the provided data, and the high attack complexity reflects the need for valid credentials plus a specifically-configured (non-default) disabled_actions list. |
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Alert meAnalysisAIv1 – Oct 22, 2026
Roundcube Webmail versions before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 can allow an authenticated user to reach an action that an administrator intentionally placed in the non-default disabled_actions list by invoking that action through a deprecated alias. The pre-fix authorization check compared only the requested action name and did not resolve aliases first, so the restriction can be bypassed; the assessed impact is integrity-only, with no confidentiality or availability effect. Exploitation requires the disabled_actions setting to be explicitly configured, valid credentials, and knowledge of the deprecated alias; no public exploit identified at time of analysis and no CISA KEV entry is present in the provided data.
RemediationAI
Upgrade to Roundcube Webmail 1.6.20 or 1.7.5; vendor-released patches are available at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.6.20 and https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.7.5, with the upstream fix in commit cd413140bf5362cd86a4327dd6364387505865a9 and related commit e7c512ae09ebd0ae5d0d2f29e00a767bf91f6bbe. Because exploitation requires a configured disabled_actions restriction and knowledge of the deprecated alias, environments that do not use disabled_actions have no practical exposure, but those relying on it for hardening should prioritize patching. If immediate upgrade is not possible, avoid treating disabled_actions as a sole security boundary and add web server or reverse-proxy request filtering for the specific deprecated alias values associated with blocked actions, accepting that alias-based filtering is brittle and may break legitimate clients that still use those aliases.
Affected VersionsENISA
Affected Packages
Source: OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities)
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Technical ContextAI · show details
The issue is an incorrect authorization decision (CWE-863) in Roundcube Webmail's PHP action dispatch. The disabled_actions configuration is an administrator hardening setting, but the pre-patch check in public_html/index.php compared the requested action name directly against the configured list without normalizing deprecated aliases. Task handlers can define aliases that map old action names to canonical actions, so a request using an alias could pass the in_array() check and still reach the blocked handler. The upstream commit moves the check into rcmail::action_handler(), adds the request security check there, and resolves $task_handler::$aliases[$this->action] before comparing against disabled_actions, ensuring aliases cannot bypass the restriction.
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Severity by source
AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Authenticated user over the network (AV:N/PR:L); AC:H because it only works when disabled_actions is configured and a valid alias is known; integrity-only impact (I:L), no C or A.
Primary rating from Vendor (mitre).
CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
DescriptionCVE.org
Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 allows the disabled_actions configuration setting to be bypassed. The check compared only the action name as requested, so a remote authenticated attacker could reach an action listed in disabled_actions by requesting it through its deprecated alias instead. Upstream fixed this in the commit “Fix bug where deprecated action aliases bypassed disabled_actions setting”, which moves the check into rcmail::action_handler() and resolves aliases before comparing.
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SSVC AssessmentENISA
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Attack Technique
Authentication bypass attacks exploit flaws in the verification mechanisms that control access to systems and applications.
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