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CVE-2025-26794

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 77.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-89

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.)

Affected products

• Exim: from 4.98 before 4.98.1 — fixed in 4.98.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Exim 4.98.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237424
• https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/bfe32b5c6ea033736a26da8421513206db9fe305
• https://exim.org
• https://exim.org/static/doc/security/EXIM-Security-2025-12-09.1/report.txt
• https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/EximSecurity
• https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383926
• https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/584d2c49addce9ca0ae67882cc16969104d7f82d
• https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2025-26794.txt
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/19/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/21/4
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/02/21/5

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