CVE-2009-1491
Published May 5, 2009
Last updated 7 years ago
Overview
- Description
- McAfee GroupShield for Microsoft Exchange on Exchange Server 2000, and possibly other anti-virus or anti-spam products from McAfee or other vendors, does not scan X- headers for malicious content, which allows remote attackers to bypass virus detection via a crafted message, as demonstrated by a message with an X-Testing header and no message body.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Modified
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 9.3
- Impact score
- 10
- Exploitability score
- 8.6
- Vector string
- AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- CWE-20
Configurations
[
{
"nodes": [
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:mcafee:groupshield:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": true,
"matchCriteriaId": "1F8EEB2A-4BB6-4D3C-8CCC-88D1D0D6D4D0"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
},
{
"negate": false,
"cpeMatch": [
{
"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:exchange_server:2000:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
"vulnerable": false,
"matchCriteriaId": "5E61FD5F-3B18-4589-B652-FDFE8F234417"
}
],
"operator": "OR"
}
],
"operator": "AND"
}
]