Amavis is a widely embedded content-filtering and virus-scanning gateway deployed across mail server infrastructure, where its vulnerability exposure centers on the core scanning and attachment-processing mechanisms. The observed weakness profile reflects the inherent complexity of parsing and safely handling untrusted message content; live severity, exploitation, and exposure counts are shown alongside this summary.
The number and severity of CVEs published that impact products developed by Amavis over time
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (5 CVEs).
5 CVEs · Highest risk first
| CVE | Published | CVSS | Risk | KEV | Exploit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2007-1669HIGH zoo decoder 2.10 (zoo-2.10), as used in multiple products including (1) Barracuda Spam Firewall 3.4 and later with virusdef before 2.0.6399, (2) Spam Firewall before 3.4 20070319 w | May 9, 2007 | 7.8 | 39 | NO | YES |
CVE-1999-1512HIGH The AMaViS virus scanner 0.2.0-pre4 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root via an infected mail message with shell metacharacters in the reply-to | Dec 31, 1999 | 10.0 | 26 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-2026HIGH The gnu regular expression code in file 4.20 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a crafted document with a large number of line fe | Apr 13, 2007 | 7.8 | 25 | NO | NO |
CVE-2007-1673HIGH unzoo.c, as used in multiple products including AMaViS 2.4.1 and earlier, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a ZOO archive with a direntry str | May 9, 2007 | 7.8 | 21 | NO | NO |
securetar, as used in AMaViS shell script 0.2.1 and earlier, allows users to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a malformed TAR file, possibly via an incorrect file si | Oct 4, 2002 | 2.1 | 11 | NO | NO |
Signals from CVEs in this vendor scope (5 CVEs).
An overview of all social media posts that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Amavis.
Media articles that mention a CVE ID that affects a product developed by Amavis — matched by CVE ID, not by vendor name.