🛡️ CVE-2024-34470 — mailinspector

🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ⚠️ Exploit Public CWE-29 NVD
8.6
CVSS Score
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Description

An issue was discovered in HSC Mailinspector 5.2.17-3 through v.5.2.18. An Unauthenticated Path Traversal vulnerability exists in the /public/loader.php file. The path parameter does not properly filter whether the file and directory passed are part of the webroot, allowing an attacker to read arbitrary files on the server.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Affected software

CVE-2024-34470 is recorded against 1 package.

  • mailinspector (from 5.2.17-3 up to 5.2.19)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. A public exploit is known to exist, which raises the urgency of patching considerably. Record sourced from NVD.

References

github.com
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Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE CWE-29
Public Exploit ⚠️ Yes
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-06
Updated 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
mailinspector 5.2.17-3 5.2.19

References

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