CVE-2006-2447

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 75.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-06-06 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

SpamAssassin before 3.1.3, when running with vpopmail and the paranoid (-P) switch, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted message that is not properly handled when invoking spamd with the virtual pop username.

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache SpamAssassin: 3.1.0, 3.1.1, 3.1.2

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/20430
http://secunia.com/advisories/20443
http://secunia.com/advisories/20482
http://secunia.com/advisories/20531
http://secunia.com/advisories/20566
http://secunia.com/advisories/20692
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016230
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016235
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1090
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200606-09.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:103
http://www.nabble.com/ANNOUNCE%3A-Apache-SpamAssassin-3.1.3-available%21-t1736096.html

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