Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim
xbow.com | vulnerability | Critical | CVE-2026-45185 | #rce | #vulnerability-research | #use-after-free | #exim | #cve-2026-45185 | #gnutls
Summary
XBOW recounts finding CVE-2026-45185, an unauthenticated Exim RCE: during GnuTLS TLS shutdown, a nested BDAT wrapper's ungetc() writes one byte into freed memory, corrupting allocator metadata.
- CVE
- CVE-2026-45185
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Published
- Collected
--- id: 5166 title: "Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim" cve: CVE-2026-45185 cvss: 9.8 severity: critical source_domain: xbow.com source_url: "https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim" published_at: "2026-05-12T14:00:00Z" tags: ["rce", "vulnerability-research", "use-after-free", "exim", "cve-2026-45185", "gnutls"] phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/5166" lang: en --- # Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim ## Summary XBOW recounts finding CVE-2026-45185, an unauthenticated Exim RCE: during GnuTLS TLS shutdown, a nested BDAT wrapper's ungetc() writes one byte into freed memory, corrupting allocator metadata. ## Intelligence Metadata - **Sources:** xbow.com - **CVE:** CVE-2026-45185 - **CVSS:** 9.8 - **Published:** 2026-05-12T14:00:00Z - **Original:** https://xbow.com/blog/dead-letter-cve-2026-45185-xbow-found-rce-exim - **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/5166