CVE-2004-2771

HIGH

Description

The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address.

References

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html

http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066

http://secunia.com/advisories/60940

http://secunia.com/advisories/61585

http://secunia.com/advisories/61693

http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748

Details

Source: MITRE

Published: 2014-12-24

Updated: 2019-12-27

Type: CWE-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2.0

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Impact Score: 6.4

Exploitability Score: 10

Severity: HIGH