<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="../assets/feed.xsl"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>PatchTheCVE: spamassassin</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/</link><description>CVEs with upgrade or downgrade fix steps</description><item><title>CVE-2020-1946: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.5, malicious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system </title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1946.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1946.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:02:41 +0000</pubDate><description>CRITICAL 9.8: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.5, malicious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands without any output or errors. With this, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios. In addition to upgrading to SA version 3.4.5, users should only use update channels or 3r</description></item><item><title>CVE-2020-1931: A command execution issue was found in Apache SpamAssassin prior to 3.4.3</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1931.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1931.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:02:38 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 8.1: 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 Luk</description></item><item><title>CVE-2020-1930: A command execution issue was found in Apache SpamAssassin prior to 3.4.3</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1930.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2020-1930.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:02:37 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 8.1: 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 priv</description></item><item><title>CVE-2019-12420: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2019-12420.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2019-12420.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:14:37 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 7.5: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources. Upgrading to SA 3.4.3 as soon as possible is the recommended fix but details will not be shared publicly.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2018-11805: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, nefarious CF files can be configured to run system commands without any o</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11805.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11805.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:36:38 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 6.7: In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, nefarious CF files can be configured to run system commands without any output or errors. With this, exploits can be injected in a number of scenarios. In addition to upgrading to SA 3.4.3, we recommend that users should only use update channels or 3rd party .cf </description></item><item><title>CVE-2018-11781: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 fixes a local user code injection in the meta rule syntax.</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11781.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11781.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:36:35 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 7.8: Apache SpamAssassin 3.4.2 fixes a local user code injection in the meta rule syntax.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2018-11780: A potential Remote Code Execution bug exists with the PDFInfo plugin in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11780.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2018-11780.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:36:34 +0000</pubDate><description>CRITICAL 9.8: A potential Remote Code Execution bug exists with the PDFInfo plugin in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2017-15705: A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2017-15705.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2017-15705.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:08:07 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 5.3: A denial of service vulnerability was identified that exists in Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.2. The vulnerability arises with certain unclosed tags in emails that cause markup to be handled incorrectly leading to scan timeouts. In Apache SpamAssassin, using HTML::Parser, we setup an object and hoo</description></item><item><title>CVE-2016-1238: (1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2016-1238.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2016-1238.html</guid><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:41:31 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 7.8: (1) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptar, (2) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptardiff, (3) cpan/Archive-Tar/bin/ptargrep, (4) cpan/CPAN/scripts/cpan, (5) cpan/Digest-SHA/shasum, (6) cpan/Encode/bin/enc2xs, (7) cpan/Encode/bin/encguess, (8) cpan/Encode/bin/piconv, (9) cpan/Encode/bin/ucmlint, (10) cpan/Encode/bin/unidump</description></item><item><title>CVE-2007-2873: SpamAssassin 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and 3.2.1 before 20070611, when running as root in unusual configurations using vpo</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2007-2873.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2007-2873.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:40:36 +0000</pubDate><description>LOW 1.9: SpamAssassin 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and 3.2.1 before 20070611, when running as root in unusual configurations using vpopmail or virtual users, allows local users to cause a denial of service (corrupt arbitrary files) via a symlink attack on a file that is used by spamd.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2007-0451: Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malform</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2007-0451.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2007-0451.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:35:35 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 4.3: Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malformed HTML, which triggers &quot;massive memory usage.&quot;</description></item><item><title>CVE-2006-2447: SpamAssassin before 3.1.3, when running with vpopmail and the paranoid (-P) switch, allows remote attackers to</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2006-2447.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2006-2447.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:25:01 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 5.1: SpamAssassin before 3.1.3, when running with vpopmail and the paranoid (-P) switch, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted message that is not properly handled when invoking spamd with the virtual pop username.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2005-3351: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 allows attackers to bypass spam detection via an e-mail with a large number of recipients (</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2005-3351.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2005-3351.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:16:46 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 5.0: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 allows attackers to bypass spam detection via an e-mail with a large number of recipients (&quot;To&quot; addresses), which triggers a bus error in Perl.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2005-1266: Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumpt</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2005-1266.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2005-1266.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:12:44 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 5.0: Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2004-0796: SpamAssassin 2.5x, and 2.6x before 2.64, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain malf</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2004-0796.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2004-0796.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:06:23 +0000</pubDate><description>MEDIUM 5.0: SpamAssassin 2.5x, and 2.6x before 2.64, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain malformed messages.</description></item><item><title>CVE-2003-1557: Off-by-one buffer overflow in spamc of SpamAssassin 2.40 through 2.43, when using BSMTP mode (&quot;-B&quot;), allows re</title><link>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2003-1557.html</link><guid>https://patchthecve.com/cve/CVE-2003-1557.html</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:04:39 +0000</pubDate><description>HIGH 7.6: Off-by-one buffer overflow in spamc of SpamAssassin 2.40 through 2.43, when using BSMTP mode (&quot;-B&quot;), allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via email containing headers with leading &quot;.&quot; characters.</description></item></channel></rss>