7.2
CVSSv2

CVE-2020-28015

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

Vulnerability Summary

Exim 4 prior to 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. Local users can alter the behavior of root processes because a recipient address can have a newline character.

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Vendor Advisories

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 ...
Prior versions of Exim 4 have Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters Local users can alter the behavior of root processes because a recipient address can have a newline character (<a href="nvdnistgov/vuln/detail/CVE%2D2020-28015">CVE-2020-28015</a>) Prior versions of Exim 4 allowed Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow in ...
A security issue has been found in Exim before version 4942 that allows for new-line injection into spool header files (local) ...