CVE-2006-1251

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    CVE-2006-1251

    Published: 19 Mar 2006Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/19225, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941, http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110, http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=345071, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286

    Affected packages

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    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