{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2014-12-16T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "mailx: command execution flaw",
    "id" : "1162783",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1162783"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "3.6",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-78",
  "details" : [ "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.", "A flaw was found in the way mailx handled the parsing of email addresses. A syntactically valid email address could allow a local attacker to cause mailx to execute arbitrary shell commands through shell meta-characters (CVE-2004-2771) and the direct command execution functionality (CVE-2014-7844)." ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 is now in Production 3 Phase of the support and maintenance life cycle. This has been rated as having Moderate security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2014-12-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1999",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "mailx-0:12.4-8.el6_6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2014-12-16T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2014:1999",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "mailx-0:12.5-12.el7_0"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "mailx",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2004-2771\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2004-2771" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2004-2771",
  "csaw" : false
}