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CVE-2024-40464

An issue in beego v.2.2.0 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the sendMail function located i

An issue in beego v.2.2.0 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the sendMail function located in beego/core/logs/smtp.go file.

HIGH · CVSS 8.8 EPSS 0.00751
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  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
Sigma rules0 YARA rules0
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Weakness Classification

CWE-295Improper Certificate Validation
CWE-599Missing Validation of OpenSSL Certificate
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Affected Products & Versions

1
beego< 2.2.1
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Affected Packages

1
Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Go github.com/beego/beego/v2 HIGH fixed in 2.2.1
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Scoring & Timeline

8.8
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · cve@mitre.org
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD31 Jul 2024 · 09:15 PM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
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References & Sources

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Source URLs (vendor pages, mailing lists, write-ups). Exploit/PoC links are in their own section above to avoid duplication.
https://gist.github.com/nyxfqq/b53b0148b9aa040de63f58a68fd11445Third Party Advisory
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