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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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CVSS VectorVendor: mitre
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
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An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.14 and 1.6.14. The remote image blocking feature can be bypassed via a crafted background attribute of a BODY element in an e-mail message. This may lead to information disclosure or access-control bypass.
AnalysisAI
Roundcube Webmail before versions 1.5.14 and 1.6.14 allows unauthenticated remote attackers to bypass the remote image blocking security feature through a crafted background attribute in a BODY element of an email message, enabling information disclosure via tracking pixels or other image-based reconnaissance. The vulnerability affects all versions prior to 1.5.14 and 1.6.x versions before 1.6.14, with CVSS 5.3 (medium severity) reflecting the low confidentiality impact but lack of authentication requirements.
Technical ContextAI
Roundcube Webmail implements a remote image blocking feature as a privacy protection mechanism to prevent email senders from using image requests to track when messages are read or to identify valid email addresses. The vulnerability exploits improper input sanitization of HTML attributes within email messages, specifically the BACKGROUND attribute of the BODY element (CWE-669: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation). When an attacker crafts an email with a malicious BACKGROUND attribute, the filtering logic fails to properly block the resulting image request, allowing the remote server to be contacted regardless of the user's privacy settings. This affects the web-based email client running on affected Roundcube installations (CPE: cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*), which processes untrusted HTML from incoming email messages.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patches are available: upgrade Roundcube Webmail to version 1.5.14 or later for the 1.5.x branch, version 1.6.14 or later for the 1.6.x branch, or 1.7-rc5 or later for the development branch. Administrators should apply patches immediately through their standard package management or by downloading the latest releases from https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/. No workarounds are documented; patch deployment is the only remediation. For organizations unable to immediately update, temporary mitigation could include disabling the remote image blocking feature and warning users about email tracking risks, though this is not a substitute for patching.
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