CVE-2006-1251 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.

Published: 2006-03-19

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

n/a

n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.2:::::::*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-1255	Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00687.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19225
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286

History

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Subscriptions

Sa-exim Sa-exim

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-03-19T01:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T17:03:28.840Z

Reserved: 2006-03-18T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-1251

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-03-19T01:02:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2006-1251

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-94

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