Vulnerability Report

CVE-2004-2771

RCE

Title: Bsd Mailx Project Bsd Mailx RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2004-2771.

CWE Category CWE-20
Published Date Dec 24, 2014
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.88%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2004-2771: The expand function in fio.c in Heirloom mailx 12.5 and earlier and BSD mailx 8.1.2 and earlier allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in an email address.

Impacted Vendors

S
sgi 1
B
bsd_mailx_project 1
H
heirloom 1

Reference Links

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066 http://secunia.com/advisories/60940 http://secunia.com/advisories/61585 http://secunia.com/advisories/61693 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2014-1999.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1999.html http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2014/q4/1066 http://secunia.com/advisories/60940 http://secunia.com/advisories/61585 http://secunia.com/advisories/61693 http://www.debian.org/security/2014/dsa-3105 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=278748
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2004-2771 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.