CPANSA-Mail-Mailer-2002-1271: MailTools vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2002-11-12T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.25
Current release date 2002-11-12T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score Severity
Original language Language en
Also referred to

Vulnerability Description

The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2002-1271

Vulnerability Description

The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
MailTools less than 1.51
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
2.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 7.5 High
Fixed

giterlizzi

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Nov 12 00:00:00 2002 First release

Sharing rules

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