What is CVE-2012-3536?

CVE-2012-3536 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Hupa, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-02-27.

How severe is CVE-2012-3536?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.

XSS in Apache Hupa

CVE-2012-3536

Two XSS vulnerabilities were fixed in message list and view in the Hupa Webmail application from the Apache James project. An attacker could send a carefully crafted email to a user of Hupa which would trigger a XSS when the email was opened or when a list of messages were viewed. This issue was addressed in Hupa 0.0.3.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

Published 2018-02-27 · last modified 2026-06-16.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.019 (79.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 79th percentile — 79.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.019 · newest: 0.019 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Apache Hupa
Apache Software Foundation Hupa — versions Hupa versions prior to 0.0.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

References

james.apache.org/hupa/index.html (Vendor Advisory)
svn.apache.org/viewvc (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2012-3536?: CVE-2012-3536 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Apache Hupa, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 6.1/10. Published 2018-02-27.
How severe is CVE-2012-3536?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.1 out of 10.