CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-1078

10.0 HIGH Published 2001-06-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-06-21
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
10.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Format string vulnerability in flog function of eXtremail 1.1.9 and earlier allows remote attackers to gain root privileges via format specifiers in the SMTP commands (1) HELO, (2) EHLO, (3) MAIL FROM, or (4) RCPT TO, and the POP3 commands (5) USER and (6) other commands that can be executed after POP3 authentication.

Affected configurations

• extremail extremail 1.0 • extremail extremail 1.0.1 • extremail extremail 1.0.2 • extremail extremail 1.0.3 • extremail extremail 1.1 • extremail extremail 1.1.1 • extremail extremail 1.1.2 • extremail extremail 1.1.3 • extremail extremail 1.1.4 • extremail extremail 1.1.5 • extremail extremail 1.1.6 • extremail extremail 1.1.7 • extremail extremail 1.1.8 • extremail extremail 1.1.9

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