CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2007-2873

    CVE-2007-2873

    SpamAssassin 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and 3.2.1 before 20070611, when running as root in unusual configurations using vpopmail or virtual users, allows local users to cause a denial of service (corrupt arbitrary files) via a symlink attack on a file that is used by spamd.

    Published:Jun 11, 2007
    Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026
    EPS:Jun 11, 2007
    EPSS Score:0.00064
    CVSS Score:1.9

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Spamassassin
    Product
    Spamassassin

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    No CWE recorded yet

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-88914 (CVSS 4.4) — A flaw was found in GStreamer's gst-plugins-good isomp4 plugin. When processing a specially crafted MP4 or MOV…
    CVE-2026-84828 (CVSS 6.5) — A flaw was found in PCS (Pacemaker Configuration System). A local attacker with membership in the 'haclient' g…
    CVE-2026-88859 (CVSS 6.3) — A flaw was found in Evolution. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted…
    CVE-2026-18147 (CVSS 8.1) — A flaw was found in FreeIPA. An unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit a DOM Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)…
    CVE-2026-87853 (CVSS 7.5) — A flaw was found in SSSD's IdP authentication provider. The eval_access_token_buf() function compares the OIDC…
    CVE-2026-88924 (CVSS 7) — A flaw was found in the admin backend of gvfs. The privileged gvfsd-admin daemon changes the ownership of newl…
    CVE-2026-87876 (CVSS 3) — Two case-insensitive comparisons on request-derived usernames outside the main authorization path in CUPS's sc…
    CVE-2026-87875 (CVSS 4.3) — The cupsUTF32ToUTF8() function in CUPS's cups/transcode.c lacks a source-length bound and can read past the en…
    CVE-2026-87766 (CVSS 8.8) — A flaw was found in bubblewrap. During sandbox setup, creating files or directories under the new root can fol…
    CVE-2026-18090 (CVSS 6.1) — A flaw was found in gdk-pixbuf. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a heap out-of-bounds read…

    References

    http://osvdb.org/37234
    http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-2873.txt
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:125
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0492.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24481
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018242
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2172
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34864
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1450
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10354
    http://osvdb.org/37234
    http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-2873.txt
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:125
    http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0492.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/24481
    http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018242
    http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/2172
    https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/34864
    https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1450
    https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10354

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High