Critical
Security advisory
MailDev 2 through 2.1.0 allows Remote Code Execution via a crafted Content-ID header for an e-mail attachment, leading to lib/mailserver.js writing arbitrary code into the routes.js file.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2024-27448
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 2 Nov 2026, 18:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
MailDev 2 through 2.1.0 allows Remote Code Execution via a crafted Content-ID header for an e-mail attachment, leading to lib/mailserver.js writing arbitrary code into the routes.js file.
osv:CVE-2024-27448
Complete source record
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"https://intrix.com.au/articles/exposing-major-security-flaw-in-maildev",
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"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-27448",
"https://github.com/maildev/maildev/issues/467",
"https://github.com/Tim-Hoekstra/MailDev-2.1.0-Exploit-RCE",
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