CVE-2005-1266: Apache Spamassassin

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Apache Spamassassin: version 3.0.1 only; version 3.0.2 only; version 3.0.3 only

Published 2005-06-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.