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CVE-2007-0451
Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malformed HTML, which triggers…
Medium4.3EPSS 6.9%
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- Updated
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- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
Apache SpamAssassin before 3.1.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via long URLs in malformed HTML, which triggers "massive memory usage."
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 24 days later
· 24 days later
Published
- 17 years later
· 17 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium4.3 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.9% · top 5.9% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.3.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (23)
- http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24200 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1073 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24889 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- MDKSA-2007:049 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- 24265 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-241 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2007:006 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:10018 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVALx_transferred
- FEDORA-2007-242 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- ADV-2007-0628 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 22584 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 24250 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 1017666 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0074 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- 24256 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- spamassassin-url-dos(32536) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 33207 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 24197 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/build/announcements/3.1.8.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 24307 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- GLSA-200703-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- RHSA-2007:0075 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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