CVE-2007-0451
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3EPSS 6.9%EU EUVD
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."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-399
- EPSS score
- 6.9% (94th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-0450)
- Published
- February 16, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-0450 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
- apache / spamassassin
References
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2657(Patch)
- http://fedoranews.org/cms/node/2659(Patch)
- http://osvdb.org/33207
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-0074.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24197(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24200(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24250(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24256(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24265(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24307(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24889(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200703-02.xml
- http://spamassassin.apache.org/advisories/cve-2007-0451.txt
- http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/spamassassin/branches/3.1/build/announcements/3.1.8.txt
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:049
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_6_sr.html
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0075.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22584(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017666
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0628(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/32536
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1073
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10018
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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