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CVE-2007-2173

Published: Apr 24, 2007Updated: Apr 23, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDNVD-CWE-Other

10.0CVSSCRITICAL

No Known Exploits

Patch Available

Description

Eval injection vulnerability in (1) courier-imapd.indirect and (2) courier-pop3d.indirect in Courier-IMAP before 4.0.6-r2, and 4.1.x before 4.1.2-r1, on Gentoo Linux allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the XMAILDIR variable, related to the LOGINRUN variable.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

Exploitability

AV:NAccess Vector

Network

AC:LAccess Complexity

Low

Au:NAuthentication

None

Impact

C:CConfidentiality

Complete

I:CIntegrity

Complete

A:CAvailability

Complete

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Weaknesses

Affected Products

courier-imap double precision incorporated

On-prem

Communications / email-server-client

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Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168196

bugs.gentoo.org

http://osvdb.org/35274

http://secunia.com/advisories/24963

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Timeline

Published

Apr 24, 2007

Last Updated

Apr 23, 2026

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