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CVE-2012-2575· NVD / CVE Program· CNA certcc

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in NetWin SurgeMail 6.0a4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the SR

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in NetWin SurgeMail 6.0a4 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via the SRC attribute of an IFRAME element in the body of an HTML e-mail message.

MediumCVSS 4.3 · v2.0—Proof of concept No fix recorded
Published
Sep 17, 2012
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
EPSS
1.3% · 70th percentile
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Action score

17

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Low priority for now.

CVSS
17 / 40 · 4.3 / 10
CISA KEV
0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS
0 / 30 · 1.3%

Affected systems

VendorProduct
netwinsurgemail

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

  • netwin surgemail6.0

Same product

netwin: all records

Other highest-scoring records for the same primary product.

  • CVE-2004-2537Unspecified vulnerability in SurgeMail before 2.2c10 has unknown impact and attack vectors, related to a "Webmail security bug."
    41Plan
  • CVE-2007-4372Unspecified vulnerability in NetWin SurgeMail 38k on Windows Server 2003 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors.
    40Plan
  • CVE-2008-1497Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4-4 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrar
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2008-1498Stack-based buffer overflow in the IMAP service in NetWin Surgemail 3.8k4-4 and earlier allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitra
    38Monitor
  • CVE-2008-1055Format string vulnerability in webmail.exe in NetWin SurgeMail 38k4 and earlier and beta 39a, and WebMail 3.1s and earlier, allows remote at
    32Monitor
  • CVE-2007-2655Unspecified vulnerability in NetWin Webmail 3.1s-1 in SurgeMail before 3.8i2 has unknown impact and remote attack vectors, possibly a format
    31Monitor

Remediation

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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.

Exploit status

Proof of concept available

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Evidence

  • Exploit-DB entry ×1

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Public exploit evidence
SourceKindDate
Exploit-DB entrywebapps2012-08-08

Research context

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Timeline

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  1. First PoC-40 d
  2. Published
  3. TodaySep 30, 2026+5126 d
EPSS, last 120 days

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Patch and commit links

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No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

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Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

No nightly-computed relations.

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

No known public program.

Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).

Technical details

Attack conditions

    If successful

    Confidentiality
    none
    Integrity
    P · data or configuration can be modified
    Availability
    none
    Attack complexity
    M
    Confidentiality impact
    None
    Integrity impact
    P
    Availability impact
    None

    Weakness class (CWE)

    CWE-79 · Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

    CVSS vector

    AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

    nvd-primary

    Root cause

    User content is inserted into the page as HTML. The browser interprets the content as code rather than data.

    The bug in code

    The whole CWE-79 class

    A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

    Vulnerable

    ts
    commentEl.innerHTML = comment.body;

    Fixed

    ts
    commentEl.textContent = comment.body;

    Attack context

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    ATT&CK techniques

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