CVE-2019-6800 — In TitanHQ SpamTitan through 7

In TitanHQ SpamTitan through 7.03, a vulnerability exists in the spam rule update function. Updates are downloaded over HTTP, including scripts which are subsequently executed with root permissions. An attacker with a privileged network position is trivially able to inject arbitr

01What is this vulnerability?

In TitanHQ SpamTitan through 7.03, a vulnerability exists in the spam rule update function. Updates are downloaded over HTTP, including scripts which are subsequently executed with root permissions. An attacker with a privileged network position is trivially able to inject arbitrary commands.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
n	a / n/a	n/a

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

Ask SARA in chat to draft a starting detection for this CVE in your stack of choice.

07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2019-06-05T18:05:02.000Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-04T20:31:04.278Z

09References

• www.spamtitan.com — https://www.spamtitan.com/category/spamtitan-news/
• write-up.github.io — https://write-up.github.io/CVE-2019-6800/