In Exim before 4.99.2, when the SPA authentication driver is used with an adversarial SPA resource, there can be an out-of-bounds write that crashes the connection instance, or erroneous data processing that divulges data from uninitialized heap memory.
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Description In Exim before 4.99.2, when the SPA authentication driver is used with an adversarial SPA resource, there can be an out-of-bounds write that crashes the connection instance, or erroneous data processing that divulges data from uninitialized heap memory.
First Time appeared Exim
Exim exim
Weaknesses CWE-909
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Exim
Exim exim
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2026-04-30T21:32:54.175Z

Reserved: 2026-04-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2026-40687

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-04-30T22:16:25.923

Modified: 2026-04-30T22:16:25.923

Link: CVE-2026-40687

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