Medium [CVE-2024-58379] Denial of Service via specially crafted emails with data URLs or embedded attachments
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2024-58379 affecting Red Hat Developer Hub, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Hardened Images.
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Summary
nodemailer before 6.9.9 contains a regular expression denial of service vulnerability in email parsing when attachDataUrls parameter is set or processing embedded file attachments. Attackers can send specially crafted emails with malicious data URLs or embedded attachments to cause the event loop to hang and deny service.
A flaw was found in Nodemailer. A remote attacker can exploit a regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability by sending specially crafted emails containing malicious data URLs or embedded attachments.
This can cause the email parsing process to hang, leading to a denial of service for the affected system. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 5.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L).
Weakness: CWE-1333. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Developer Hub; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Hardened Images; Self-service automation portal 2.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: grafana.
- < 6.9.9
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation
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