5
CVSSv2

CVE-2002-1575

Published: 03/03/2004 Updated: 11/07/2017
CVSS v2 Base Score: 5 | Impact Score: 2.9 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 445
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Vulnerability Summary

cgiemail allows remote malicious users 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.

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mit cgiemail 1.6

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A vulnerability was discovered in cgiemail, a CGI program used to email the contents of an HTML form, whereby it could be used to send email to arbitrary addresses This type of vulnerability is commonly exploited to send unsolicited commercial email (spam) For the current stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in version 16-14wo ...