CVE-2026-45185
CRITICAL 9.8EPSS 1.2%
Exim before 4.99.3, in certain GnuTLS configurations, has a remotely reachable use-after-free in the BDAT body parsing path. It is triggered when a client sends a TLS close_notify mid-body during a CHUNKING transfer, followed by a final cleartext byte on the same TCP connection. This can lead to heap corruption. An unauthenticated network attacker exploiting this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code.
- CVSS v3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - EPSS
- 1.23% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 67th percentile
- Published
- 2026-05-12
- Updated
- 2026-05-14
Proof-of-concept exploits (2)
- 0init/CVE-2026-451850★ · 2026-08-07
- materaj2/cve-2026-45185-detection-script