Vulnerability in Ritlabs The Bat

CVE-2001-0398

The BAT! mail client allows remote attackers to bypass user warnings of an executable attachment and execute arbitrary commands via an attachment whose file name contains many spaces, which also causes the BAT! to misrepresent the attachment's type with a different icon.

EPSS: 0.020 (79.2th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Ritlabs The_bat — versions 1.0_build1336, 1.0_build1349, 1.1
  • N/a — versions n/a

References

  • cve@mitre.org (Exploit, Patch, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, Vendor Advisory)
  • cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)