CVE-2012-6579 (GCVE-0-2012-6579)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-07-24 10:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 04:05
VLAI
Summary
Best Practical Solutions RT 3.8.x before 3.8.15 and 4.0.x before 4.0.8, when GnuPG is enabled, allows remote attackers to configure encryption or signing for certain outbound e-mail, and possibly cause a denial of service (loss of e-mail readability), via an e-mail message to a queue's address.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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