CVE-2026-40686 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 14.04.2026 Published: 30.04.2026 Updated: 01.05.2026

In Exim before 4.99.2, when utf8 operators are enabled, there is an out-of-bounds read if large UTF-8 trailing characters are present (malformed UTF-8 header data). Information might be divulged within an error message produced during handling of an unrelated e-mail message.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 3.7

Product Status

Vendor Exim
Product Exim
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 4.99.2 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read CWE