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AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attacker sends email so PR:N, but the victim must render the crafted HTML (UI:R); SSRF crosses into other systems (S:C) yielding limited info disclosure (C:L) with no integrity or availability impact.
Primary rating from Vendor (mitre).
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8DescriptionNVD
In Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.17 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2, insufficient Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) sanitization in HTML e-mail messages may lead to SSRF or Information Disclosure, e.g., if stylesheet links point to local network hosts. NOTE: this issue exists because of insufficient fixes for CVE-2026-35540 and CVE-2026-48843.
AnalysisAI
Server-Side Request Forgery and information disclosure in Roundcube Webmail (1.6.x before 1.6.17 and 1.7.x before 1.7.2) arises from insufficient CSS sanitization in HTML email messages, allowing an attacker who sends a crafted message to make the mail server fetch attacker-chosen URLs - including internal/local network hosts - via stylesheet links. This is a re-fix of CVE-2026-35540 and CVE-2026-48843, whose prior patches were incomplete, and the 1.7.2 notes explicitly cite 'SSRF bypass via specific local address URLs - two new cases.' No public exploit is identified at time of analysis and the vulnerability is not on CISA KEV; EPSS is low (0.22%, 13th percentile) despite the source-assigned CVSS of 10.0.
Technical ContextAI
The affected component is Roundcube's HTML email rendering pipeline, specifically its CSS sanitizer that processes stylesheet references embedded in inbound HTML messages. The root cause is CWE-918 (Server-Side Request Forgery): the sanitizer fails to fully block CSS constructs (e.g. stylesheet link/@import URLs) that resolve to internal or local-network addresses, so the server side of Roundcube can be coerced into issuing outbound requests. Because this bug is a regression of earlier fixes (CVE-2026-35540 and CVE-2026-48843), it is fundamentally an address/URL-filtering bypass - the blocklist of local addresses did not cover all encodings/cases. The single affected CPE is cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail, a PHP-based open-source webmail client commonly deployed on shared hosting and enterprise mail gateways.
RemediationAI
Vendor-released patch: upgrade to Roundcube Webmail 1.7.2 (for the 1.7.x branch) or 1.6.17 (for the 1.6.x branch), available at https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.7.2 and https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.6.17, with the corresponding fixes in commits 6d69e094d55d3a9a84dfb36edf6ca985311f0c1c and 294c7da6e7284166f040cef8607b677d459e0786. Because prior fixes for CVE-2026-35540 and CVE-2026-48843 were insufficient, do not rely on those earlier releases - apply the full 1.6.17/1.7.2 update. If patching must be delayed, compensating controls include disabling remote/external content loading in HTML messages so stylesheets and images are not fetched server-side (trade-off: legitimate remote content in mail will break for users), and egress-filtering the webmail server so it cannot reach internal/RFC1918 or link-local addresses (trade-off: may interfere with internal integrations the server legitimately needs). Back up data before upgrading, per the vendor's guidance.
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Same weakness CWE-918 – Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
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EUVD-2026-43749
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