What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities
CVE-2002-1271
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 3.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2002-11-12 · updated 2026-06-16
Description
The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.
Affected products
- Perl-Mailtools: 1.13, 1.15, 1.40, 1.42, 1.44, 1.47 (+1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103659723101369&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103679569705086&w=2
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-386
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10548.php
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-076.php
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2002_041_perl_mailtools.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/6104
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103659723101369&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=103679569705086&w=2
- http://www.debian.org/security/2003/dsa-386
- http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10548.php
- http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/security/2002/MDKSA-2002-076.php
Get alerted when CVE-2002-1271 or the next vulnerability affects your stack