CVE-2022-3559 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Adjacent Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact Low

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Exim	Exim
Fedoraproject	Fedora

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:35:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:36:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:37:::::::*

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References

Link	Providers
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2915
https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/4e9ed49f8f12eb331b29bd5b6dc3693c520fddc2
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/EIH4W5R7SHTUEQFWWKB4TUO5YFZX64KV/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/TMQ6OCKPNPBPSD37YR4FOWV2R54M2UEP/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WFHLZVHNNO2GWYP5EA4TZQZ5O4GVPARR/
https://vuldb.com/?id.211073

History

Sat, 12 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00135}`	epss `{'score': 0.00169}`

Fri, 23 May 2025 17:00:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs	cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:-:::::::*	cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim::::::::

Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: VulDB

Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-15T13:27:13.689Z

Reserved: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-3559

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:14:02.041Z

NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2022-10-17T18:15:12.613

Modified: 2025-05-23T18:30:01.250

Link: CVE-2022-3559

Redhat

No data.

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