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CVE-2004-2771

Date: December 24, 2014

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.

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (12)

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

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2771

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2004-2771

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/61693

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2004-2771

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/61585

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

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

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/60940

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2004-2771

Severity Score

7.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Input Validation

CWE-20

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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