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CVE-2004-2771

Public on 2014-12-24
Modified on 2015-01-08
Description

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).

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
3.6
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mailx 2015-01-08 11:37 ALAS-2015-467

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P