jstedfast/mimekit · Security

Mimekit has vulnerable dependency that can lead to denial of service

GHSA ID
GHSA-gmc6-fwg3-75m5
Severity
high
Published
Updated
CVSS
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v3
7.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4
8.7 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

Summary

Denial of service vulnerability.

Details

See: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-447r-wph3-92pm and https://github.com/dotnet/announcements/issues/312

PoC

Update System.Security.Cryptography.Pkcs to 8.0.1 so that the transitive dependency with the issue gets updated

Impact

Denial of service vulnerability. Affects MimeKit (>= v3.0.0 and <= v4.7.0) when used to decrypt or verify incoming S/MIME messages as well as importing 3rd-party X.509 certificates for use with encrypting outgoing S/MIME messages.

CWEs

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