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CVE-2020-1930 Details

Description

A command execution issue was found in Apache SpamAssassin prior to 3.4.3. Carefully crafted nefarious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands similar to CVE-2018-11805. With this bug unpatched, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios including the same privileges as spamd is run which may be elevated 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. If you cannot upgrade, do not use 3rd party rulesets, do not use sa-compile and do not run spamd as an account with elevated privileges.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:8.1 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00003.html	CVE
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7648	CVE	Permissions Required
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6729f3d3be754a06c39bb4f11c925a3631e8ea2b4c865546d755cb0a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E	CVE
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00015.html	CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7SY2LUSH2X3IUXN4EQQ5A6QVUFYIV3D/	CVE
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOVVKFP2G2AF5GHAB4WMHOEX76A3H6CE/	CVE
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/1	CVE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4265-1/	CVE
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4265-2/	CVE
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4615	CVE
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-04/msg00003.html	[email protected]
https://bz.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=7648	[email protected]	Permissions Required
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r6729f3d3be754a06c39bb4f11c925a3631e8ea2b4c865546d755cb0a%40%3Cannounce.apache.org%3E	[email protected]
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00015.html	[email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/B7SY2LUSH2X3IUXN4EQQ5A6QVUFYIV3D/	[email protected]
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VOVVKFP2G2AF5GHAB4WMHOEX76A3H6CE/	[email protected]
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Feb/1	[email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4265-1/	[email protected]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4265-2/	[email protected]
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4615	[email protected]

see all 20 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-78	Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection')	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
apache spamassassin	< 3.4.3
CPE cpe:2.3:a:apache:spamassassin:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

13 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 7, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 4, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 18, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 12, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 7, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 7, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 3, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 2, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 1, 2020	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jan 30, 2020	CVE Modified	[email protected]