CVE-2024-27448MailDev 2 through 2.1.0 allows Remote Code Execution via a crafted Content-ID header for an e-mail attachment, leading to…
- 9.1CriticalCVSS base score
- 0.90%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 40% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- YesPublic exploitsa reference or SSVC says so
Description
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.
Public exploit
An exploit or proof of concept is public: anyone can try it against an unpatched system. CISA's SSVC rates its exploitation: a proof of concept is public.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 39 days later
· 39 days later
Published
- 11 months later
· 11 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CISA-ADPADP (enrichment) | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Critical9.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.90% · top 40% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: poc · Automatable: yes · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.1.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- npmmaildevGHSA-vc6q-ccj9-9r89 (opens in a new tab)
References
References5
- https://github.com/Tim-Hoekstra/MailDev-2.1.0-Exploit-RCE (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/maildev/maildev/releases (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://intrix.com.au/articles/exposing-major-security-flaw-in-maildev (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://github.com/maildev/maildev/issues/467 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://gist.github.com/stypr/fe2003f00959f7e3d92ab9d5260433f8 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-1309 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-vc6q-ccj9-9r89 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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