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Status published
Medium
CVE-2006-1251
Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote...
Vulnerability 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/19225
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110
- http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941
Affected Vendor
sa-exim
View all reports →Affected Software
sa-exim
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0, 4.1, 4.2
Timeline
Official Publish:
March 19th, 2006
Last Modified:
August 7th, 2024
Added to House:
July 18th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.