CVE-2007-4560
HIGH · CVSS 7.6EPSS 83.5%EU EUVD
clamav-milter in ClamAV before 0.91.2, when run in black hole mode, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters that are used in a certain popen call, involving the "recipient field of sendmail."
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-78
- EPSS score
- 83.5% (100th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2007-4542)
- Published
- August 28, 2007
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2007-4542 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- clam anti-virus / clamav
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307562
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26654(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26674(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26683(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26751(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26822(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/26916(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200709-14.xml
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3063
- http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1366
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:172
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_18_sr.html
- http://www.nruns.com/security_advisory_clamav_remote_code_exection.php(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/477723/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/25439(Patch)
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1018610
- http://www.trustix.org/errata/2007/0026/
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2007-September/msg00104.html
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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