CVE-2024-39929
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 5.4 Medium
- Published
- Jul 4, 2024
- Updated
- Mar 18, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 4, 2024
Description
Exim through 4.97.1 misparses a multiline RFC 2231 header filename, and thus remote attackers can bypass a $mime_filename extension-blocking protection mechanism, and potentially deliver executable attachments to the mailboxes of end users.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 5.4 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-116 Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/6ce5c70cff8989418e05d01fd2a57703007a6357
- https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/1b3209b0577a9327ebb076f3b32b8a159c253f7b
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/compare/exim-4.98-RC2...exim-4.98-RC3
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2231.txt
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099#c4
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