What is CVE-2024-48938?

CVE-2024-48938 is a high-severity vulnerability in Znuny, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-10-11.

How severe is CVE-2024-48938?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-48938 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Znuny

CVE-2024-48938

Znuny before LTS 6.5.1 through 6.5.10 and 7.0.1 through 7.0.16 allows DoS/ReDos via email. Parsing the content of emails where HTML code is copied from Microsoft Word could lead to high CPU usage and block the parsing process.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.006 (42.8th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Znuny
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

cve@mitre.org (Product)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)
cve@mitre.org (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-48938?: CVE-2024-48938 is a high-severity vulnerability in Znuny, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2024-10-11.
How severe is CVE-2024-48938?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-48938 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.