CVE-2010-4345

high-risk
Published 2010-12-14

Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.

Do I need to act?

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5.1% chance of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS score — moderate exploit probability
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CISA KEV: actively exploited in the wild
On the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — federal agencies must patch
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1 public exploit available
16925
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.8/10 High
LOCAL / LOW complexity

Affected Products (10)

Affected Vendors

Exim Canonical Opensuse Debian

References (57)

Issue Tracking http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044
Mailing List http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101209.172233.abcba158.en.html
Mailing List http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101210.164935.385e04d0.en.html
Mailing List http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00003.html
Mailing List http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/10/1
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42576
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/42930
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/43128
Broken Link http://secunia.com/advisories/43243
Broken Link http://www.cpanel.net/2010/12/critical-exim-security-update.html
Mailing List http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2131
Mailing List http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2154
Mailing List http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20101207.215955.bb32d4f2.en.html
Third Party Advisory http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/758489
Third Party Advisory http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/unix/smtp/exim4_string_format
Mailing List http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7
Broken Link http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0153.html
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515172/100/0/threaded
Broken Link http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45341
Broken Link http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024859
and 37 more references
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high-risk
Severity 24/34 · High
Exploitability 22/34 · High
Exposure 16/34 · Moderate