critical
CVE-2025-26794
exim: Exim: remote SQL injection
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.
Severity by source
NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Red Hat (high).
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 packages and fixed versions
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 13 | exim4 | 4.98-4 |
| debian 14 | exim4 | 4.98-4 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.20 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.21 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.22 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.23 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.24 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort debian 12 | exim4 | 0:4.98-4 |
| rapidfort debian 13 | exim4 | 0:4.98-4 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim, exim-clamav, exim-greylist and 3 more | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim, exim-clamav, exim-greylist and 3 more | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim, exim-clamav, exim-greylist and 3 more | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
Show all 27 entries from 12 sources
| Source | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| debian 13 | exim4 | 4.98-4 |
| debian 14 | exim4 | 4.98-4 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.20 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.21 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.22 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.23 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort alpine 3.24 | exim | 4.98.1-r0 |
| rapidfort debian 12 | exim4 | 0:4.98-4 |
| rapidfort debian 13 | exim4 | 0:4.98-4 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim-clamav | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim-greylist | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim-mon | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim-mysql | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort fedora 43 | exim-pgsql | 4.99.1-1.fc43 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim-clamav | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim-greylist | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim-mon | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim-mysql | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 10 | exim-pgsql | 4.99.1-1.el10_2 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim-clamav | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim-greylist | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim-mon | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim-mysql | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
| rapidfort Oracle Linux 9 | exim-pgsql | 4.99.1-1.el9 |
References
- 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
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-26794
- 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
All 14 references
- https://github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/EximSecurity
- https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383926
- https://github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/584d2c49addce9ca0ae67882cc16969104d7f82d
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-26794
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-26794
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2025-26794.txt