CVE-2006-1251

MEDIUM 5.0CVE-2006-1251 · Published 19/03/2006 · updated 16/06/2026

In short

CVE-2006-1251 is a MEDIUM (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability affecting sa-exim (sa-exim).
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS): 1.5%, higher than 74.9% of all vulnerabilities.
No patched version is listed yet: follow the vendor's advisory in References.

Package	Affected versions	Patched versions
sa-exim sa-exim	`= 4.0= 4.1= 4.2`	No fix yet

Description

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

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.html · Patch
secunia.com/advisories/19225 · Vendor Advisory
securityfocus.com/bid/17110 · Patch
vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941 · Vendor Advisory
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286

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