CVE-2007-2173

Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-04-24 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in (1) courier-imapd.indirect and (2) courier-pop3d.indirect in Courier-IMAP before 4.0.6-r2, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2-r1, on Gentoo Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the XMAILDIR variable, related to the LOGINRUN variable.

Affected products

Double Precision Incorporated Courier-Imap: 4.0.0, 4.0.1, 4.0.2, 4.0.3, 4.0.4, 4.0.5 (+2)

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168196
http://osvdb.org/35274
http://secunia.com/advisories/24963
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-18.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23589
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33805
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168196
http://osvdb.org/35274
http://secunia.com/advisories/24963
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-18.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23589
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/33805

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