CVE-2020-28013

Published: 06/05/2021 Updated: 10/05/2021

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 641

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exim 4 prior to 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.

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The Qualys Research Labs reported several vulnerabilities in Exim, a mail transport agent, which could result in local privilege escalation and remote code execution Details can be found in the Qualys advisory at wwwqualyscom/2021/05/04/21nails/21nailstxt For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 4 ...

Exim 4 before 4942 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Because Exim operates as root in the log directory (owned by a non-root user), a symlink or hard link attack allows overwriting critical root-owned files anywhere on the filesystem (CVE-2020-28007) Exim 4 before 4942 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Because Exim oper ...

A heap buffer overflow in parse_fix_phrase() has been found in Exim before version 4942 ...

Dear Exim-Users Abstract -------- Several exploitable vulnerabilities in Exim were reported to us and are fixed We have prepared a security release, tagged as "exim-4942" This release contains all changes on the exim-494+fixes branch plus security fixes You should update your Exim instances as soon as possible (See below for short upgra ...

Qualys Security Advisory 21Nails: Multiple vulnerabilities in Exim ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Local vulnerabilities - CVE-2020-28007: Link attack in Exim's log directory - CVE-2020-28008: Assorted attacks in Ex ...

CWE-787 https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txt https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4912

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