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FKIE_CVE-2009-1491

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2009-05-05 19:30 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:07

Severity

Summary

McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.

References

URL	Tags
cve@mitre.org	http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/	Exploit
cve@mitre.org	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50354
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/	Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/50354

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	mcafee	groupshield	*
	microsoft	exchange_server	2000

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CVE-2009-1491 (GCVE-0-2009-1491)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-05-05 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 05:13

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard E 29/100 over 2230 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.nmrc.org/~thegnome/blog/apr09/	x_refsource_MISC

Date Public

2009-04-27 00:00

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