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CVE-2026-40687

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-909

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.

Affected products

• Exim: before 4.99.2 — fixed in 4.99.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Exim 4.99.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/68b963b9f75ca27b38e1c0f8c87037990199f505
• https://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2026-40687.txt
• https://exim.org/static/doc/security/cve-2026-04.1/CVE2026-40687.assessment
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/04/30/21

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