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

CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10

CVSS v3 Base Score: 9.8 | Impact Score: 5.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

VMScore: 668

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

Exim 4 prior to 4.94.2 allows Buffer Underwrite that may result in unauthenticated remote attackers executing arbitrary commands, because smtp_ungetc was only intended to push back characters, but can actually push back non-character error codes such as EOF.

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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 underflow in smtp_ungetc() has been found in Exim before version 4942 ...

CWE-119 https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28024-UNGET.txt https://nvd.nist.gov https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4912

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