CVE-2019-12420

spamassassin: crafted email message can lead to DoS

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

7.5

CVSS 3.1

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Published · December 12, 2019

Updated · June 27, 2026

Description

In Apache SpamAssassin before 3.4.3, a message can be crafted in a way to use excessive resources. Upgrading to SA 3.4.3 as soon as possible is the recommended fix but details will not be shared publicly.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE-1333 · Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity