After getting reports about a possible vulnerability of Roundcube which allows an attacker to modify its users preferences in a way that he/she can then read files from the server, we now published updated packages as well as patches that fix this security issue.

Please update all your Roundcube installations with the new versions (0.9-rc2, 0.8.6, 0.7.4) or patch them with the published patches. Download the latest version from http://roundcube.net/download

Patch for 0.9.x: http://ow.ly/jtQD0 Patch for 0.8.x: http://ow.ly/jtQHM Patch for 0.7.x: http://ow.ly/jtQK0 Patch for 0.6: http://ow.ly/jtQNd

In order to find out whether one of your users has vulnerable preferences, you can run the following query on the Roundcube user database:

SELECT * FROM users WHERE preferences LIKE '%generic_message_footer%'

If this returns any results, you should at least clear the 'preferences' field of that user entry. Or better: entirely block the user because he or she most likely tried to exploit your system.

And here's some background about the vulnerability: http://lists.roundcube.net/pipermail/dev/2013-March/022328.html

Best regards, Thomas