CVE-2006-1251: Sa-Exim

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Sa-Exim Sa-Exim: version 4.0 only; version 4.1 only; version 4.2 only

Published 2006-03-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.