CVE-2024-40464

HIGH8.8EPSS 0.75%

Beego privilege escalation vulnerability

Published: 7/31/2024Modified: 2/4/2026

Description

An issue in beego v.2.2.0 and before allows a remote attacker to escalate privileges via the `sendMail` function located in the `beego/core/logs/smtp.go` file.

Affected packages (2)

Go/github.com/beego/beego/v2from 0, < 2.2.1
Go/github.com/beego/beego/v2from 0, < 2.2.1

CVSS scores

Source	Version	Severity	Vector
osv	CVSS 4.0	—	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
osv	CVSS 3.1	HIGH8.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References (6)

ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r6qh-j42j-pw64
ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-40464
PATCHhttps://github.com/beego/beego
WEBhttps://gist.github.com/nyxfqq/b53b0148b9aa040de63f58a68fd11445
WEBhttps://github.com/beego/beego/commit/8f89e12e6cafb106d5c201dbc3b2a338bfde74e2
WEBhttps://github.com/beego/beego/security/advisories/GHSA-6g9p-wv47-4fxq