CVEvulnerability

CVE-2002-1271

7.5 HIGH Published 2002-11-12 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2002-11-12
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The Mail::Mailer Perl module in the perl-MailTools package 1.47 and earlier uses mailx as the default mailer, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands by inserting them into the mail body, which is then processed by mailx.

Affected configurations

• perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.13 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.15 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.40 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.42 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.44 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.47 • perl-mailtools perl-mailtools 1.1401

References