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CVE-2026-105241 Details

Description

Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding vulnerability in the SmtpPickupDirAppender of Apache log4net. Content that the mail file writer cannot encode, such as an unpaired UTF-16 surrogate, made the write throw. Every buffered event in the batch was discarded, not only the one carrying the content, and a truncated mail could be left in the pickup directory. A party whose data reaches a log message could suppress the records of other events. Only applications that use SmtpPickupDirAppender are affected. This issue affects Apache log4net: from 1.2.9 before 3.5.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.0, which fixes the issue.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.3 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/07/15	CVE
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/commit/4d2e10f0908199604b4326f9df6d0b43b871e333	[email protected]
https://github.com/apache/logging-log4net/pull/315	[email protected]
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/hg8dgh3oy8bp3dhb8nsygk9kw2o401ws	[email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-176	Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding	[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

3 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Oct 7, 2026	CVE Modified	CISA-ADP
Oct 7, 2026	CVE Modified	CVE
Oct 6, 2026	New CVE Received	[email protected]