9.3
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-1930

Published: 30/01/2020 Updated: 07/11/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 9.3 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 8.6
CVSS v3 Base Score: 8.1 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 2.2
VMScore: 828
Vector: AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

A command execution issue was found in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3. Carefully crafted nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands similar to CVE-2018-11805. With this bug unpatched, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios including the same privileges as spamd is run which may be elevated though doing so remotely is difficult. In addition to upgrading to SA 3.4.4, we again recommend that users should only use update channels or 3rd party .cf files from trusted places. If you cannot upgrade, do not use 3rd party rulesets, do not use sa-compile and do not run spamd as an account with elevated privileges.

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Vendor Advisories

Synopsis Moderate: spamassassin security update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Moderate Topic An update for spamassassin is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base ...
Debian Bug report logs - #950258 src:spamassassin: arbitrary code execution when processing rules files Package: src:spamassassin; Maintainer for src:spamassassin is Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debianorg>; Reported by: Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debianorg> Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:48:01 UTC Severity: grave Tags: security Fo ...
Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin ...
Several security issues were fixed in SpamAssassin ...
Two vulnerabilities were discovered in spamassassin, a Perl-based spam filter using text analysis Malicious rule or configuration files, possibly downloaded from an updates server, could execute arbitrary commands under multiple scenarios For the oldstable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 342-1~deb9u3 For the s ...

Mailing Lists

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