OS Command Injection Affecting spamassassin package, versions <0:3.4.2-10.el8


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.81% (82nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-SPAMASSASSIN-2572485
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed30 Jan 2020

Introduced: 30 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-1931  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 spamassassin to version 0:3.4.2-10.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2020-4625.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spamassassin package and not the spamassassin package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

A command execution issue was found in Apache SpamAssassin prior to 3.4.3. Carefully crafted nefarious Configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands similar to CVE-2018-11805. This issue is less stealthy and attempts to exploit the issue will throw warnings. Thanks to Damian Lukowski at credativ for reporting the issue ethically. With this bug unpatched, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios though doing so remotely is difficult. In addition to upgrading to SA 3.4.4, we again recommend that users should only use update channels or 3rd party .cf files from trusted places.

CVSS Scores

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