CVE catalog

CVE-2006-1251

sa-exim: CVE-2006-1251

Severity: Medium
Published: Mar 19, 2006, 1:02:00 AM UTC
Source: [NVD] · [CVE record]
EPSS: 1.53% · Oct 25, 2026

Argument injection vulnerability in greylistclean.cron in sa-exim 4.2 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via an email with a To field that contains a filename separated by whitespace, which is not quoted when greylistclean.cron provides the argument to the rm command.

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Distribution-reported package versions and fixes. These do not depend on matching against the OpenFactory package catalog.

Distribution	Package	Release	Version	Status
Debian	sa-exim	sid	`4.2.1-22`	fixed
Debian	sa-exim	trixie	`4.2.1-22`	fixed
Debian	sa-exim	bookworm	`4.2.1-20`	fixed

Fixed-version evidence

Distribution	Package	Type	Release	Fixed version	Urgency	Origin	Bugs
Debian	sa-exim	source	sid	`4.2.1-1`	not yet assigned	Not reported	[345071]
Debian	sa-exim	source	trixie	`4.2.1-1`	not yet assigned	Not reported	[345071]
Debian	sa-exim	source	bookworm	`4.2.1-1`	not yet assigned	Not reported	[345071]

[Debian bug #345071]

OpenFactory catalog packages

[Debian 12 (Bookworm)]

[sa-exim]Fixed
Source package: [sa-exim]
Details (2)
- 4.2.1-20+b1 · amd64 · bookworm
  Fixed · Fixed: 4.2.1-1
  dsa · sa-exim · debian · bookworm; dsa · sa-exim · debian · 12
- 4.2.1-20+b1 · arm64 · bookworm
  Fixed · Fixed: 4.2.1-1
  dsa · sa-exim · debian · bookworm; dsa · sa-exim · debian · 12

[Debian 13 (Trixie)]

[sa-exim]Fixed
Details (2)
- 4.2.1-22 · arm64 · trixie
  Fixed · Fixed: 4.2.1-1
  dsa · sa-exim · debian · 13
- 4.2.1-22+b1 · amd64 · trixie
  Fixed · Fixed: 4.2.1-1
  dsa · sa-exim · debian · 13

Observed: Oct 23, 2026, 5:02:53 PM UTC

References

[Debian Security Tracker] · [FIRST EPSS] · [OSV Package Vulnerability Database]