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CVE-2022-3559
Exim Regex use after free
Medium4.6EPSS 5.0%
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- VulDB
Description
A vulnerability was found in Exim and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component Regex Handler. The manipulation leads to use after free. The name of the patch is 4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier VDB-211073 was assigned to this vulnerability.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| VulDBCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium4.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.0% · top 7.7% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected n/a
References (7)
- https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://vuldb.com/?id.211073 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2915 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-6125582f45 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-ebb3db782c (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- FEDORA-2022-90e08c08e6 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/10/msg00029.html (opens in a new tab)
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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