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CVE-2007-2873

11
FAUCET Score

CVE-2007-2873 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in SpamAssassin versions 3.1.x, 3.2.0, and 3.2.1 (before 20070611) when configured to run as root with vpopmail or virtual users. An attacker can exploit this by using a symlink attack to corrupt arbitrary files, leading to a denial of service. The vulnerability has a low CVSS score of 1.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P), indicating local access, medium attack complexity, and a partial impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
3.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:3.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:3.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:3.1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:3.1.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
3.1.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:spamassassin:spamassassin:3.1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

1.9LOW

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
MEDIUM
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.4
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.34%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
26.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0034 is in the 44th percentile among its peer group of 747 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (2)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4Fixed in: spamassassin-0:3.1.9-1.el4
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5Fixed in: spamassassin-0:3.1.9-1.el5
View patch

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2007-2873Low

spamassassin symlink attack

Jun 11, 2007

References

osvdb.org / 37234
exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com / vulnerabilities/34864
issues.rpath.com / browse/RPL-1450
oval.cisecurity.org / repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10354
spamassassin.apache.org / advisories/cve-2007-2873.txt
mandriva.com / security/advisories
redhat.com / support/errata/RHSA-2007-0492.html
securityfocus.com / bid/24481
securitytracker.com / id
vupen.com / english/advisories/2007/2172