CVE-2002-1575

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-03-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

cgiemail allows remote attackers to use cgiemail as a spam proxy via CRLF injection of encoded newline (%0a) characters in parameters such as "required-subject," which can be used to modify the CC, BCC, and other header fields in the generated email message.

Affected products

MIT Cgiemail: 1.6

References

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102406554627053&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106520691705768&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-437
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5013
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9361
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102406554627053&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106520691705768&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-437
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5013
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9361

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