CVE-2026-35539

An issue was discovered in Roundcube Webmail before 1.5.14 and 1.6.14. XSS exists because of insufficient HTML attachment sanitization in preview mode. A victim must preview a text/html attachment.

Published: 2026-04-03 Last update: 2026-04-07 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2026-35539 is rated Low Risk (30.3/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.25%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2026-35539

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.04% 0.25% +0.21%
2 2026-04-03 0.04%

Full EPSS history (2 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2026-35539

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
6.1 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:N)
No account or special rights needed—anonymous or random user is enough.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:C)
Breaking this can reach past the original component and bite other resources—bigger blast radius.
Confidentiality (C:L)
Some sensitive info could get out, but not a total data dump.
Integrity (I:L)
Attackers could change some data, but it’s limited—not everything goes.
Availability (A:N)
Service keeps running; no real outage angle.
2.8 2.7 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2026-35539

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2026-35539

GHSA-x4q5-8j5g-hpjc · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: composer — Roundcube Webmail: Insufficient HTML attachment sanitization in preview mode

OS Trackers for CVE-2026-35539

vendor priority summary link
debian not yet assigned CVE-2026-35539 not yet assigned priority: Debian including 1 source packages (roundcube), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35539
ubuntu medium CVE-2026-35539 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (roundcube), 7 status rows across 7 suites (bionic, focal, jammy, noble, questing, upstream, xenial): needs-triage 6, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-35539

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2026-35539

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
roundcube webmail < 1.5.14 cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
roundcube webmail >= 1.6.0, < 1.6.14 cpe:2.3:a:roundcube:webmail:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2026-35539

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