CVE-2005-1266
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.
02 Description
Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 8.34% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 94.9% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2005-06-22 04:00Z21 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 21:44Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2005-04-25
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 40822a256a2cd2dabcbfa8b8feab636ae8b62716c81dd44df3c33129c6f5e0ca
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.vuxml.orghttp://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/cc4ce06b-e01c-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54.html
- www.securityfocus.com13978http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13978
- bugs.gentoo.orghttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94722
- www.debian.orgDSA-736http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-736
- mail-archives.apache.org[spamassassin-announce] 20050615 Denial of Service Vulnerability in Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1-3.0.3http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/200506.mbox/%3c17072.35054.586017.822288%40proton.pathname.com%3e
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200506-17http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml
- oval.cisecurity.orgoval:org.mitre.oval:def:10901https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10901
- www.redhat.comRHSA-2005:498http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-498.html
- www.mandriva.comMDKSA-2005:106http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:106
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- spamassassin Fixed in 3.0.4-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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