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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2004-0796 json

SpamAssassin 2.5x, and 2.6x before 2.64, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain malformed messages.

published 2004-08-24 22 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2004-0794

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.9%
EPSS 1.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

SpamAssassin 2.5x, and 2.6x before 2.64, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via certain malformed messages.

Patch / fix

  • spamassassin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 2.64

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2004-0796

  • spamassassin RHEL 3 2.55-3.2

red hat advisories RHSA-2004:451

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2004-0796 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Desktop version 3 spamassassin 2.55-3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 3 spamassassin 2.55-3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 3 spamassassin 2.55-3.2 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 3 spamassassin 2.55-3.2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2004:451

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.94% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.