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low 2.7

CVE-2017-5930 json

The AliasHandler component in PostfixAdmin before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated domain admins to delete protected aliases via the delet…

published 2017-03-20 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2017-15004

cvss
2.7
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
15.0%
EPSS 15.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 96%
public exploits
1
Metasploit

Summary

The AliasHandler component in PostfixAdmin before 3.0.2 allows remote authenticated domain admins to delete protected aliases via the delete parameter to delete.php, involving a missing permission check.

Patch / fix

  • postfixadmin_project postfixadmin 3.0.2
  • postfixadmin Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 3.0.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2017-5930

  • postfixadmin Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +19 more 3.0.2-r0
  • postfixadmin Alpine 3.2 2.9.2-r1

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2017-5930

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (Metasploit auxiliary/admin/http/pfadmin_set_protected_alias)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

14.95% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 96% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 2.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.5 AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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