CVE-2024-39929General(exim / exim)

LOWCVSS 5.4 · MEDIUM

Signal is active with 1 mentions in latest observed window

Immediate actions

  • Track advisory updates for patch or workaround availability

Recommended action window: Monitor and triage in normal cycle

NVD description

Exim through 4.97.1 misparses a multiline RFC 2231 header filename, and thus remote attackers can bypass a $mime_filename extension-blocking protection mechanism, and potentially deliver executable attachments to the mailboxes of end users.

0.0/ 10 priority

Sources & remediation

Weakness type (CWE)
CWE-116

Priority

LOW

Exploitation

NONE

PoC

YES

Patch

AVAILABLE

Momentum

NONE

Are you affected?

If you run products in this scope, you should treat this CVE as relevant to your environment.

  • exim

Threat summary

  • 1 mentions across 1 observed day

What's happening

  • General: 1 classified signal
  • 1 total mentions across 1 day

Affected systems

Vendors
Products
exim

Deep dive

Activity timeline1 mentions / 1d
00111Mentions · 2026-05-13: 105-13
Signal classification1 categories
General
1100.0%
Referenced assets1 URL
Full discourse1 post
  • jericho@attritionorg
    General

    @PicusSecurity re: https://www.picussecurity.com/resource/blog/chinese-threat-actors-what-defenders-need-to-know Under UNC3886 can you confirm CVE-2024-39929? You attribute to Junos, that is a vuln in Exim though.

    Post summary

    The user requests confirmation on CVE-2024-39929 from PicusSecurity, noting that the vulnerability is in Exim rather than Junos.

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