CVE-2002-1575 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

cgiemail allows remote attackers to use cgiemail as a spam proxy via CRLF injection of encoded newline (%0a) characters in parameters such as "required-subject," which can be used to modify the CC, BCC, and other header fields in the generated email message.

Published: 2004-02-11

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mit:cgiemail:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2002-1556	cgiemail allows remote attackers to use cgiemail as a spam proxy via CRLF injection of encoded newline (%0a) characters in parameters such as "required-subject," which can be used to modify the CC, BCC, and other header fields in the generated email message.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact None

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00751.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=102406554627053&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=106520691705768&w=2
http://www.debian.org/security/2004/dsa-437
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5013
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/9361

History

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Subscriptions

Mit Cgiemail

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-02-11T05:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:28.976Z

Reserved: 2004-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2002-1575

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2004-03-03T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627

Link: CVE-2002-1575

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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