CWE-403Base

Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere ('File Descriptor Leak')

Draft in the CWE catalog · 6 CVEs mapped

6
CVEs mapped
8.7
Median CVSS
What it is

A process does not close sensitive file descriptors before invoking a child process, which allows the child to perform unauthorized I/O operations using those descriptors.

Recent examples
4.3cvss
CVE-2026-33263

CVE-2026-33263 - MEDIUM Severity Vulnerability

When mail_max_userip_connections is set (default 10) and reached, submission-login can crash with epoll() panic caused by file descriptor handling issues. If running in high-security mode (default for community releases), only the new submission connection gets terminated. If running in high-performance mode (default for Pro releases), all connections handled by the submission-login process will be terminated. The crashes can cause failure for user to send a message, or it can cause duplicate messages to be sent. If TLS is not used (in the backend server processing the submission), duplicate deliveries cannot happen, because the crash can only happen at AUTH stage. Limit the number of connections handled by single submission-login process. This has a performance impact though. Update to non-vulnerable version. No publicly available exploits are known.

MEDIUMno explanation yet
0%
epss
8.8cvss
CVE-2026-16526

CVE-2026-16526 - HIGH Severity Vulnerability

A flaw in the PCP linux_sockets module exposes an unsecured internal connection. An attacker with initial code execution can exploit this to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary commands as root.

HIGHno explanation yet
0%
epss
9.3cvss
CVE-2026-40042

Pachno 1.0.6 Wiki TextParser XML External Entity Injection

Pachno 1.0.6 contains an XML external entity injection vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files by exploiting unsafe XML parsing in the TextParser helper. Attackers can inject malicious XML entities through wiki table syntax and inline tags in issue descriptions, comments, and wiki articles to trigger entity resolution via simplexml_load_string() without LIBXML_NONET restrictions.

CRITICALno explanation yet
0%
epss
The record
Technical detail
CWE ID
CWE-403
Abstraction
Base
Structure
Simple
Status
Draft
References (2)