Description
Roundcube Webmail before 1.6.20 and 1.7.x before 1.7.5 is affected by a remote content blocking bypass in the handling of FuncIRI attributes. rcube_washtml detected the CSS url() token with a pattern that enumerated only some of its escaped spellings, so values using other CSS escape sequences, for example \000075rl( or u\72 l(, were not recognized and remote content was loaded from an HTML message without the user's consent. Upstream fixed this in the commit “Fix remote content blocking bypass via CSS escapes in FuncIRI attributes (again)”, which resolves CSS escapes before matching and also inspects the `to`, `from` and `by` attributes.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roundcube | Webmail | 1.6.0 – < 1.6.20, 1.7.0 – < 1.7.5 | 1.6.20 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | roundcube | 1.6.20+dfsg-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | roundcube | 1.6.20+dfsg-0+deb13u1 | — |
| Debian 12 | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
Show 6 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS | roundcube | No fix yet | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-4043 Roundcube Webmail: Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 5, 2026
References
- https://bugs.debian.org/1151279 issue-tracking third-party-advisory
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/2f74267f0e13bed7182b1d2294cc4f3c5c46dcee patch
- https://roundcube.net/news/2026/10/19/security-updates-1.6.20-and-1.7.5 vendor-advisory release-notes
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.7.5 release-notes patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases/tag/1.6.20 release-notes patch
- https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/commit/ff4fcfdd2952f9d09947cc9c18137f381f27caf1 patch