CVE-2006-1251

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-03-19 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-94

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.

Affected products

Sa-Exim: 4.0, 4.1, 4.2

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19225
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19225
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286

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