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Security digest: May 19, 2024

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  • Check exposure: Roundcube CVE-2024-37383: SVG Animate XSS, Exploited. Anyone running Roundcube before 1.5.7 or 1.6.x before 1.6.7, including copies bundled by hosting panels and distributions, and anyone still on the unsupported 1.5 branch.
  • None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

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· Vulnerability · CVE-2024-37383

Roundcube CVE-2024-37383: SVG Animate XSS, Exploited

Fixed in May 2024 and exploited in a targeted phishing attack weeks later; any Roundcube on a current 1.6 or 1.7 release is safe, but forgotten installs on old builds are open to this and several later exploited bugs.

Must act: Anyone running Roundcube before 1.5.7 or 1.6.x before 1.6.7, including copies bundled by hosting panels and distributions, and anyone still on the unsupported 1.5 branch.

Can relax: Roundcube installs on 1.6.20 or 1.7.5 and later, and organizations that do not run Roundcube.

  1. Inventory every Roundcube instance, including panel bundles and distribution packages, and record its version.
  2. Upgrade to 1.6.20 or 1.7.5; stopping at 1.6.7 leaves later exploited bugs open.
  3. Move any 1.5.x install to 1.6 or 1.7; the 1.5 series is no longer maintained.

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Known exploited (CISA KEV) 0

Added to CISA’s catalog on this day: confirmed exploitation in the wild. Due date = CISA’s deadline for US federal agencies.

None.

Critical advisories by ecosystem 0

GitHub-reviewed advisories rated critical, published this day (Pacific time).

None.