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CVE-2002-1575

Status: ModifiedMedium (5)—

cgiemail allows remote attackers to use cgiemail as a spam proxy via CRLF injection of encoded newline (%0a) characters in parameters such as "required-subject," which can be used to modify the CC, BCC, and other header fields in the generated email message.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

MIT — Cgiemail

CWEs

References

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          "vectorString": "AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N",
          "authentication": "NONE",
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  ],
  "lastModified": "2026-06-16T21:59:34.967",
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