CVE-2020-1946

Summary

CVECVE-2020-1946
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-03-25 10:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:19:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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 3rd party .cf files from trusted places.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-78

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Spamassassin All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 9.0 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 32 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 33 All All All
Operating System Fedoraproject Fedora 34 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc32 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
SpamAssassin: Arbitrary command execution (GLSA 202105-26) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-4879-1 spamassassin DEBIAN www.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists FEDORA lists.fedoraproject.org
[SECURITY] [DLA 2615-1] spamassassin security update MLIST lists.debian.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc34 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
[CVE-2020-1946] Apache SpamAssassin malicious rule configuration (.cf) files can be configured to run system commands MISC s.apache.org
[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: spamassassin-3.4.5-1.fc33 - package-announce - Fedora Mailing-Lists lists.fedoraproject.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Apache SpamAssassin would like to thank Damian Lukowski at credativ for ethically reporting this issue.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159484 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for spamassassin (ELSA-2021-4315)
  • 174887 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1152-1)
  • 174888 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1153-1)
  • 174894 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for spamassassin (SUSE-SU-2021:1163-1)
  • 178510 Debian Security Update for spamassassin (DLA 2615-1)
  • 178516 Debian Security Update for spamassassin (DSA 4879-1)
  • 198317 Ubuntu Security Notification for Spamassassin Vulnerability (USN-4899-1)
  • 239834 Red Hat Update for spamassassin (RHSA-2021:4315)
  • 281408 Fedora Security Update for spamassassin (FEDORA-2021-90e915cc4f)
  • 281409 Fedora Security Update for spamassassin (FEDORA-2021-5a4377797c)
  • 281410 Fedora Security Update for spamassassin (FEDORA-2021-bf06dcffa8)
  • 352369 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for spamassassin: ALAS2-2021-1642
  • 500645 Alpine Linux Security Update for spamassassin
  • 504412 Alpine Linux Security Update for spamassassin
  • 670224 EulerOS Security Update for spamassassin (EulerOS-SA-2021-1851)
  • 670472 EulerOS Security Update for spamassassin (EulerOS-SA-2021-2230)
  • 670692 EulerOS Security Update for spamassassin (EulerOS-SA-2021-2450)
  • 690198 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for spamassassin (ec04f3d0-8cd9-11eb-bb9f-206a8a720317)
  • 710090 Gentoo Linux SpamAssassin Arbitrary command execution vulnerability (GLSA 202105-26)
  • 750268 OpenSUSE Security Update for spamassassin (openSUSE-SU-2021:0551-1)
  • 940019 AlmaLinux Security Update for spamassassin (ALSA-2021:4315)
  • 960685 Rocky Linux Security Update for spamassassin (RLSA-2021:4315)
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