Description
McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.
Published: 2009-05-05
Score: 9.3 Critical
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2009-1488 McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.
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Mcafee Groupshield
Microsoft Exchange Server
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T05:13:25.560Z

Reserved: 2009-04-30T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2009-1491

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-05-05T19:30:00.203

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2009-1491

cve-icon Redhat

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Weaknesses