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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.0

CVE-2005-1266 json

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a messa…

published 2005-06-15 21 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2005-1269

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
8.3%
EPSS 8.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 94%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.

Patch / fix

  • spamassassin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.4-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2005-1266

  • spamassassin RHEL 4 3.0.4-1.el4

red hat advisories RHSA-2005:498

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-2005-1266 updated

security flaw

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS version 4 spamassassin 3.0.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop version 4 spamassassin 3.0.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 4 spamassassin 3.0.4-1.el4 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 4 spamassassin 3.0.4-1.el4
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2005:498

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

8.35% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 94% 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.