CVE-2004-2771

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 None
Description
The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2004-2771
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2014-12-24T18:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T01:15:27
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-20 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/20.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
cpe:2.3:a:bsd_mailx_project:bsd_mailx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 8.1.2
cpe:2.3:a:heirloom:mailx:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 12.5
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Integrity Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.4
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/61585
http://secunia.com/advisories/60940
http://secunia.com/advisories/61693
http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748 Exploit
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html
http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2771
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2004-2771
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 16:55:05 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 02:50:52 2014-12-24T18:59Z 2014-12-24T18:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 02:50:52 2019-12-27T16:08:55 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 02:50:52 Analyzed Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 17:04:45 2023-02-02T16:15:13 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-02 17:04:45 Analyzed Modified Vulnerability Status updated
2023-02-02 17:04:46 The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address. A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844). Description updated
2023-02-13 02:04:29 2023-02-13T01:15:27 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 02:04:30 A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844). The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address. Description updated