CVE-2006-1251

critical

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.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110

http://secunia.com/advisories/19225

http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-03-19

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00624