CVE-2007-4560

critical

Description

clamav-milter in ClamAV before 0.91.2, when run in black hole mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters that are used in a certain popen call, involving the "recipient field of sendmail."

References

https://github.com/strikoder/sendmail-clamav-exploit-CVE-2007-4560

https://github.com/binertia/tldr-cve

https://github.com/0x1sac/ClamAV-Milter-Sendmail-0.91.2-Remote-Code-Execution

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00104.html

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2007-4542

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references

http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018610

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25439

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477723/100/0/threaded

http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_clamav_remote_code_exection.php

http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:172

http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1366

http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3063

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-14.xml

http://secunia.com/advisories/29420

http://secunia.com/advisories/26916

http://secunia.com/advisories/26822

http://secunia.com/advisories/26751

http://secunia.com/advisories/26683

http://secunia.com/advisories/26674

http://secunia.com/advisories/26654

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2007-08-28

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.83539