CVE-2006-0631 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

CRLF injection vulnerability in mailback.pl in Erik C. Thauvin mailback allows remote attackers to use mailback as a "spam proxy" by modifying mail headers, including recipient e-mail addresses, via newline characters in the Subject field.

Published: 2006-02-10

Score: 5.0 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:erik_c._thauvin:mailback:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-0638	CRLF injection vulnerability in mailback.pl in Erik C. Thauvin mailback allows remote attackers to use mailback as a "spam proxy" by modifying mail headers, including recipient e-mail addresses, via newline characters in the Subject field.

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 0.00704.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Feb/0094.html
http://seclists.org/lists/bugtraq/2006/Feb/0154.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18748
http://vc.thauvin.net/cvs/cgi/mailback/mailback.pl?view=log
http://www.osvdb.org/22955
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0459
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24540

History

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Subscriptions

Erik C. Thauvin Mailback

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-02-10T11:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-07T16:41:29.028Z

Reserved: 2006-02-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-0631

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-02-10T11:02:00.000

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

Link: CVE-2006-0631

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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