CVE-2024-40464: Beego privilege escalation vulnerability

July 31, 2024 (updated August 1, 2024)

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.

References

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

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