Arbitrary Code Injection Affecting spamassassin package, versions <0:3.4.0-4.el7_5


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.98% (61st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-SPAMASSASSIN-4848277
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed17 Sept 2018

Introduced: 17 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-11781  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 spamassassin to version 0:3.4.0-4.el7_5 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2018:2916.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream spamassassin package and not the spamassassin package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 fixes a local user code injection in the meta rule syntax.