Vulnerability Details : CVE-2024-39929
Potential exploit
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.
Products affected by CVE-2024-39929
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2024-39929
28.06%
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days
EPSS Score History
~ 96 %
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less
CVSS scores for CVE-2024-39929
Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Score Source | First Seen |
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5.4
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MEDIUM | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N |
2.8
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2.5
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134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 | 2024-07-09 |
CWE ids for CVE-2024-39929
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The product prepares a structured message for communication with another component, but encoding or escaping of the data is either missing or done incorrectly. As a result, the intended structure of the message is not preserved.Assigned by: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Secondary)
References for CVE-2024-39929
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https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3099#c4
Bug 3099 – Incorrect parsing of multiline rfc2231 header filename
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https://github.com/Exim/exim/compare/exim-4.98-RC2...exim-4.98-RC3
Comparing exim-4.98-RC2...exim-4.98-RC3 · Exim/exim · GitHub
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https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/6ce5c70cff8989418e05d01fd2a57703007a6357
git.exim.org Git - exim.git/commit
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https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/1b3209b0577a9327ebb076f3b32b8a159c253f7b
git.exim.org Git - exim.git/commit
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https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2231.txt
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