CVE-2001-0889

Severity

75%

Complexity

99%

Confidentiality

106%

Exim 3.22 and earlier, in some configurations, does not properly verify the local part of an address when redirecting the address to a pipe, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Exim 3.22 and earlier, in some configurations, does not properly verify the local part of an address when redirecting the address to a pipe, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 23 years ago

2001-12-19 05:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Linux

References

20011219 [[email protected]: [Exim] Potential security problem]

DSA-097

VU#283723

US Government Resource

RHSA-2001:176

Patch, Vendor Advisory

3728

exim-pipe-hostname-commands(7738)

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