CVE-2024-39929 (GCVE-0-2024-39929)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-07-04 00:00
Modified
2025-03-18 15:37
Severity ?
5.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099#c4Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/1b3209b0577a9327ebb076f3b32b8a159c253f7bPatch
cve@mitre.orghttps://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/6ce5c70cff8989418e05d01fd2a57703007a6357Patch
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/Exim/exim/compare/exim-4.98-RC2...exim-4.98-RC3Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2231.txtNot Applicable
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099#c4Exploit, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/1b3209b0577a9327ebb076f3b32b8a159c253f7bPatch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/6ce5c70cff8989418e05d01fd2a57703007a6357Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/Exim/exim/compare/exim-4.98-RC2...exim-4.98-RC3Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2231.txtNot Applicable
Impacted products
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