CVE-2021-44026
Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection Vulnerability
Does this matter?
Known to be exploited in the wild (CISA KEV, CISA remediation deadline 13 July 2023). Treat as an emergency change: patch or isolate now, then hunt for prior compromise.
Description
Roundcube before 1.3.17 and 1.4.x before 1.4.12 is prone to a potential SQL injection via search or search_params.
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 69.88% probability · 99th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Listed 22 June 2023 · due 13 July 2023
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Affected
- roundcube/webmail · fedoraproject/fedora · debian/debian linux
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS moved from 69.9% on 24 September 2026 to 69.9% on 30 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.
CISA notes
Apply updates per vendor instructions. https://roundcube.net/news/2021/11/12/security-updates-1.4.12-and-1.3.17-released; https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-44026
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/1000156Mailing List, Patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/c8947ecb762d9e89c2091bda28d49002817263f1Patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/ee809bde2dcaa04857a919397808a7296681dcfaPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDVGIZMQJ5IOM47Y3SAAJRN5VPANKTKO/Mailing List, Release Notes
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TP3Y5RXTUUOUODNG7HFEKWYNIPIT2NL4/Mailing List, Release Notes
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5013Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.debian.org/1000156Mailing List, Patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/c8947ecb762d9e89c2091bda28d49002817263f1Patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/ee809bde2dcaa04857a919397808a7296681dcfaPatch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/12/msg00004.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDVGIZMQJ5IOM47Y3SAAJRN5VPANKTKO/Mailing List, Release Notes
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TP3Y5RXTUUOUODNG7HFEKWYNIPIT2NL4/Mailing List, Release Notes
- https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-5013Third Party Advisory
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-44026US Government Resource
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.