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title: "Security digest: August 4, 2024"
url: https://erroneo.us/security/2024-08-04/
description: "August 4, 2024 vulnerability digest: 1 brief (Roundcube CVE-2024-42009: Open-to-Exploit Email…). What to patch and who can relax."
type: security-digest-day
section: "Security Digest"
date_published: 2024-08-04
date_modified: 2026-10-23
publisher: erroneo.us
author: erroneo.us Security Desk
license: All rights reserved. Quote with attribution and a link.
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# Security digest: August 4, 2024

1 editorial brief.

## Take stock

- Check exposure: Roundcube CVE-2024-42009: Open-to-Exploit Email XSS . Anyone running Roundcube 1.6.7 or older or 1.5.7 or older, including copies bundled in hosting panels and distribution packages.
- None of it touches your stack? Then there is nothing to do today. That is a result, not a failure to read carefully.

## Editorial briefs

- **Check exposure** [Roundcube CVE-2024-42009: Open-to-Exploit Email XSS](https://erroneo.us/security/briefs/roundcube-cve-2024-42009-html-desanitization-xss/index.md): Fixed since August 2024 but still used against unpatched Roundcube in 2026, as the first step to a server takeover; confirm every install is on 1.6.20 or 1.7.5, and on anything that ran 1.6.7 or older, hunt for stolen sessions and rogue Service Workers.

## Known exploited (CISA KEV)

None.

## Critical advisories

None.

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