Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 19, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026

CVE-2006-1251

Description

Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.

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Affected products

Sa Exim/Sa Exim4 versions
cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:sa-exim:sa-exim:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: =4.2

Patches

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References

marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/files/sa-exim-cvs/Changelog.htmlnvdPatch
www.securityfocus.com/bid/17110nvdPatch
secunia.com/advisories/19225nvdVendor Advisory
www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0941nvdVendor Advisory
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cginvd
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25286nvd

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