CVE-2025-26794
CVE-2025-26794 Vulnerability Analysis & Exploit Intelligence
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.)
Published Updated Sources: cvelistV5, mitre
Triage
Is it exploited, how likely is exploitation, what does it touch, and how severe do the scoring sources call it.
Exploitation
Exploit code
public exploit, none observed
EPSS
77%
chance of exploitation in 30 days
CVSS base
7.5
HIGH
CISA SSVC assessment
Three decision points CISA publishes for the CVEs it assesses · SSVC 2.0.3. A stakeholder decision, not a severity score.
Exploitation
None
none · proof-of-concept · active
Automatable
Yes
can an attacker script all four kill-chain steps
Technical impact
Partial
partial · total control of the vulnerable component
Affected scope
The catalog records vendors and products as separate lists, not pairs, so which product belongs to which vendor is not something this page can say.
Vendors (1)
Products (1)
Every base score collected
Sources score independently and disagree; each row says who scored it and under which version.
| Score | Version | Severity | Expl. | Impact | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7.5 | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH | — | — | cvelistV5 |
Weakness & attack patterns
- CWE-89
Public exploit
Capability, not use: code existing is a different claim from anyone running it.
Indexed by
References
11 on the record
- exim.org
reference
- github.com/Exim/exim/wiki/EximSecurity
reference
- www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2025-26794.txt
reference
- code.exim.org/exim/exim/commit/bfe32b5c6ea033736a26da8421513206db9fe305
reference
- bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237424
reference
- github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/383926
reference
- github.com/openbsd/ports/commit/584d2c49addce9ca0ae67882cc16969104d7f82d
reference
- exim.org/static/doc/security/EXIM-Security-2025-12-09.1/report.txt
reference
Elsewhere on this site
Not in any source we poll
Listed rather than left blank: an empty field and an unmeasured one look identical on screen, and only one is a reason to look elsewhere.
- No confirmed IOCs, IP addresses, domains, file hashes, or malware artifacts supplied.
- No organization-specific asset inventory, compensating-control status, or patch deployment evidence supplied.
- No exploit packet captures, log samples, or incident case IDs supplied.