CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-1491

9.3 HIGH Published 2009-05-05 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-05-05
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-20

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• mcafee groupshield

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References