GHSA-vc6q-ccj9-9r89

MailDev Remote Code Execution

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Critical CVE-2024-27448

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
npm	maildev	>= 2.0.0-beta1, <= 2.1.0	no fix listed

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

MailDev 2 through 2.1.0 allows Remote Code Execution via a crafted Content-ID header for an e-mail attachment, leading to `lib/mailserver.js` writing arbitrary code into the `routes.js` file.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27448 advisory
https://github.com/maildev/maildev/issues/467 web
https://gist.github.com/stypr/fe2003f00959f7e3d92ab9d5260433f8 web
https://github.com/Tim-Hoekstra/MailDev-2.1.0-Exploit-RCE web
https://github.com/maildev/maildev package
https://github.com/maildev/maildev/releases web
https://intrix.com.au/articles/exposing-major-security-flaw-in-maildev web