HIGH
clamav-milter in ClamAV before 0.91.2, when run in black hole mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters that are used in a certain popen call, involving the "recipient field of sendmail."
Published Aug 28, 2007
7.6
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 83.54%
Description
clamav-milter in ClamAV before 0.91.2, when run in black hole mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters that are used in a certain popen call, involving the "recipient field of sendmail."
Affected products
No data.
- ≤ 0.91.1
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
7.6 HIGH NVD
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity High
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Complete
Integrity Impact Complete
Availability Impact Complete
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
83.54% 0.83539
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.83539
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 83.54% (0.83539) | 99.68th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 83.66% (0.83660) | 99.65th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Apr 16, 2026 | 87.39% (0.87391) | 99.46th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 8, 2025 | 85.13% (0.85127) | 99.31th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 91.09% (0.91095) | 99.63th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 96.55% (0.96549) | 99.67th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 1, 2024 | 96.61% (0.96612) | 99.64th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| May 24, 2024 | 96.50% (0.96504) | 99.59th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jan 29, 2024 | 96.53% (0.96527) | 99.51th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Oct 9, 2023 | 96.00% (0.95996) | 99.28th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 2, 2023 | 96.24% (0.96237) | 99.32th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 28, 2023 | 96.45% (0.96453) | 99.37th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 96.59% (0.96589) | 99.30th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 80.40% (0.80403) | 99.52th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 80.40% (0.80403) | 99.42th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (21)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26654 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26674 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26683 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26751 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26822 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26916 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-14.xml vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3063 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1366 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:172 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_clamav_remote_code_exection.php x_refsource_MISCPatch
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477723/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25439 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDPatch
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018610 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_TRUSTIX
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00104.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Aug 28, 2007
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Aug 27, 2007
Link CVE-2007-4560
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a