exim exim CVE-2010-4345 vulnerability in Exim and Other Products
Published on December 14, 2010

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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.

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Known Exploited Vulnerability

This Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability is part of CISA's list of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities. Exim 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.

The following remediation steps are recommended / required by April 15, 2022: Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2010-4345 can be exploited with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. It has an exploitability score of 1.8 out of four. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.


Products Associated with CVE-2010-4345

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