CVE-2018-11780 (GCVE-0-2018-11780)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-17 14:00 – Updated: 2024-09-16 20:57
VLAI
Summary
A potential Remote Code Execution bug exists with the PDFInfo plugin in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • Remote Code Execution
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 936 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3811-3/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3811-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105373 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-07 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/7f6a16bc0fd0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache SpamAssassin Affected: before 3.4.2
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Date Public
2018-09-16 00:00
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