CVE-2007-2873: spamassassin
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2007-2873 is a low (CVSS 1.9) vulnerability in spamassassin. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 27.5% of scored vulnerabilities.
Not severe (CVSS 1.9, local access); no exploitation reported by the 5 checked sources
Source freshness unavailable
How is this decided?Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 1 · Related 1Timeline
- 11-06-2007PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 07-08-2024Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
SpamAssassin 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and 3.2.1 before 20070611, when running as root in unusual configurations using vpopmail or virtual users, allows local users to cause a denial of service (corrupt arbitrary files) via a symlink attack on a file that is used by spamd.
CVSS metrics
1 score · 1 source · 1 versionEPSS trend
Probability
0.34%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
28%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
No change 0.00 pp
From 0.34% on 04-10-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogs
CISA KEVNot in the CISA KEV catalog.
ENISA CNWNot in the ENISA CNW catalog.
CIRCLNot in the CIRCL catalog.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeNo weakness data has been published for this record.
Affected systems
Known conditions: local access, no authentication (CVSS vector). Other conditions: not stated in public data.
Redhat2 products
- spamassassin< 0:3.1.9-1.el4 | < 0:3.1.9-1.el5
- spamassassin-debuginfo< 0:3.1.9-1.el4 | < 0:3.1.9-1.el5
Debian1 product
- spamassassin< 3.2.1-1
Spamassassin1 product
- spamassassin3.1.0 | 3.1.1 | 3.1.2 | 3.1.3 | 3.1.4 | 3.1.5 | 3.1.6 | 3.1.7 | 3.1.8 | 3.1.9 | 3.2.0 | 3.2.1
3 vendors · 4 products
References
18 links- issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1450X Refsource CONFIRM
- spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-2873.txtX Refsource CONFIRM
- oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10354VDB EntrySignatureX Refsource OVAL
