CVE-2025-26794
Exim 4.98 before 4.98.1, when SQLite hints and ETRN serialization are used, allows remote SQL injection.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 77.6%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
Exim 4.98 before 4.98.1, when SQLite hints and ETRN serialization are used, allows remote SQL injection. (Resolving SQL injection requires an update to 4.99.1 in certain non-default rate-limit configurations.)
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 77.64% probability · 100th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-89
- Affected
- exim/exim
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
EPSS 77.6% since 2 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237424Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/bfe32b5c6ea033736a26da8421513206db9fe305Patch
- https://exim.orgProduct
- https://exim.org/static/doc/security/EXIM-Security-2025-12-09.1/report.txt
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/EximSecurityVendor Advisory
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383926Release Notes
- https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/584d2c49addce9ca0ae67882cc16969104d7f82dPatch
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2025-26794.txtVendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/19/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/21/4Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/21/5Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.