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CVE-2002-1575: mit cgiemail

CVSS: 5.0v2.0MediumModified
AliasesDSA-437
Published 11-02-2004Last modified 08-08-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2002-1575 is a medium (CVSS 5.0) vulnerability in mit cgiemail. EPSS estimates a 1.39% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 71.7% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
20/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
5.0/10
010
Medium · v2.0 (NVD)
EPSS score
1.39%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 11-02-2004
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-08-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

1 score · 1 source · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.39%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

72%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 1.39% on 18-09-2026

18-09-202618-10-2026
EPSS score
1.39%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

No weakness data has been published for this record.

Affected systems

Debian1 product
  • cgiemail< 1.6-14woody1
Mit1 product

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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