Brightmail Antispam vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.

Product7 versions
The short answer

Brightmail Antispam is made by Symantec. We track 9 published vulnerabilities in it, across 7 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Brightmail Antispam, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.

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Known exploited

Which Brightmail Antispam vulnerabilities are being exploited?

This is the list that matters most: flaws criminals are using now.

None of Brightmail Antispam's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.

Exploit likelihood

Which Brightmail Antispam flaws are most likely to be used?

Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.

50% or more10% to 49%Under 10%
  1. 19%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the DEC2EXE module for Symantec AntiVirus Library allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a UPX compressed file containing a negative virtual offset to a crafted PE header.

    CVSS7.5Published8 Feb 2005
  2. 6.0%

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the Decomposer component in multiple Symantec products allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via multiple crafted CAB archives.

    CVSS9.3Published5 Oct 2007
  3. 4.5%

    Multiple directory traversal vulnerabilities in Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam (SBAS) before 6.0.4, when the Control Center is allowed to connect from any computer, allow remote attackers to read and overwrite certain...

    CVSS7.6Published7 Aug 2006
  4. 3.9%

    The Decomposer component in multiple Symantec products allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop) via a certain value in the PACK_SIZE field of a RAR archive file header.

    CVSS9.3Published5 Oct 2007
  5. 3.1%

    Brightmail Spamfilter 6.0 and earlier beta releases allows remote attackers to read mail from other users by modifying the id parameter in a viewMsgDetails.do request.

    CVSS5.0Published6 Aug 2004
  6. 2.7%

    Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0 build 1 and 2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (bmserver component termination) via malformed MIME messages.

    CVSS5.0Published31 Dec 2005
  7. 2.1%

    The character converters in the Spamhunter and Language ID modules for Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0.1 before patch 132 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via messages with the ISO-8859-10...

    CVSS5.0Published17 Dec 2004
  8. 1.7%

    Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam (SBAS) before 6.0.4, when the Control Center is allowed to connect from any computer, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (application freeze) "by sending invalid posts".

    CVSS5.0Published7 Aug 2006
  9. 1.6%

    Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam before 6.0.2 has a hard-coded database administrator password, which allows remote attackers to gain privileges.

    CVSS7.5Published9 Jun 2005
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We track 9 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Brightmail Antispam, across 7 versions.

None of Brightmail Antispam's vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today.

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