CVE-2017-5930
The AliasHandler component in PostfixAdmin before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated domain admins to delete protected aliases via the…
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- redhat
Description
The AliasHandler component in PostfixAdmin before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated domain admins to delete protected aliases via the delete parameter to delete.php, involving a missing permission check.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. The public collections list a Metasploit module for it.
Metasploit modules1 module
- Postfixadmin Protected Alias Deletion Vulnerability (Metasploit module) (opens in a new tab)
auxiliary/admin/http/pfadmin_set_protected_aliasRank normaldisclosed 3 Feb 2017
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Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 41 days later
· 41 days later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 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 | 3.1 | Low2.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 15.0% · top 3.3% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.7.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (7)
- [postfixadmin-devel] 20170204 Security hole in AliasHandler (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/blob/postfixadmin-3.0.2/CHANGELOG.TXT (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 96142 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2017:0488 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170207 Re: CVE request: PostfixAdmin allows to delete protected aliases (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- https://github.com/postfixadmin/postfixadmin/pull/23 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20170209 Re: CVE request: PostfixAdmin allows to delete protected aliases (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_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)
- EUVD EUVD-2017-15004 (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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