When was CVE-2005-1266 disclosed?

CVE-2005-1266 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on June 15, 2005, with the most recent update on April 16, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.

Is CVE-2005-1266 actively exploited?

CVE-2005-1266 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 90.8% percentile likelihood of exploitation in the next 30 days — higher percentiles indicate greater predicted risk.

How do I remediate CVE-2005-1266?

Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2005-1266, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

CVE-2005-1266

NONECVSS 0.0

0.0

Apache SpamAssassin 3.0.1, 3.0.2, and 3.0.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption and slowdown) via a message with a long Content-Type header without any boundaries.

CVSS v3: —
EG Score: —
EPSS: 90.8%
KEV: Not listed

References (18)

secalert@redhathttp://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94722
secalert@redhathttp://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/200506.mbox/%3c17072.35054.586017.822288%40proton.pathname.com%3e
secalert@redhathttp://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml
secalert@redhathttp://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-736
secalert@redhathttp://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:106
secalert@redhathttp://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-498.html
secalert@redhathttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13978
secalert@redhathttp://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/cc4ce06b-e01c-11d9-a8bd-000cf18bbe54.html
secalert@redhathttps://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10901
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94722
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/spamassassin-announce/200506.mbox/%3c17072.35054.586017.822288%40proton.pathname.com%3e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200506-17.xml
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-736
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:106
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-498.html

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