CVE-2006-1251
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,
02 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,
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
- 1.52% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 74.2% 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
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
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
- 2006-03-19 01:00Z20 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 17:03Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-03-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-94Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 79ec512ba33141b2ca8cee8299365f69858220874b4c2c98ca34914bb793e56d
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com19225http://secunia.com/advisories/19225
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comsaexim-greylistclean-file-deletion(25286)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286
- www.securityfocus.com17110http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110
- marc.merlins.orghttp://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
- bugs.debian.orghttp://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-0941http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- sa-exim Fixed in 4.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- sa-exim Fixed in 4.2.1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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