CVE-2026-45185 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 10.05.2026 Published: 12.05.2026 Updated: 13.05.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Product Status

Vendor Exim
Product Exim
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 4.97 to 4.99.3 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-416 Use After Free CWE