CVE-2024-9043 describes a critical buffer overflow vulnerability in Cellopoint Secure Email Gateway's authentication process. This flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to crash the process with crafted packets, leading to authentication bypass and full system administrator privileges. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction, resulting in complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, the severe impact necessitates immediate patching.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.2.1, <= 4.5.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:cellopoint:secure_email_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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