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CVE-2003-1557

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
CWE-119 Buffer Errors
Publication date:
31/12/2003
Last modified:
03/04/2025

Description

Off-by-one buffer overflow in spamc of SpamAssassin 2.40 through 2.43, when using BSMTP mode ("-B"), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email containing headers with leading "." characters.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.60 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Complete
Integrity (I): Complete
Availability (A): Complete

Base Score 2.0
7.60
Severity 2.0
HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:2.40:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:2.41:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:2.42:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:2.43:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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