Race Condition Affecting laim package, versions [,0.5.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-LAIM-12311698
  • published2 Sept 2025
  • disclosed1 Apr 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 1 Apr 2025

CVE NOT AVAILABLE CWE-362  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade laim to version 0.5.0 or higher.

Overview

laim is a Local SMTP helper

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition that may cause SMTP sessions to be initiated with root privileges.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1