Improper Privilege Management The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package exim-mon (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published5 Aug 2022
- disclosed6 May 2021
Introduced: 6 May 2021
CVE-2020-28008 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Amazon-Linux security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Amazon-Linux:2018.03.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream exim-mon package and not the exim-mon package as distributed by Amazon-Linux.
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. Because Exim operates as root in the spool directory (owned by a non-root user), an attacker can write to a /var/spool/exim4/input spool header file, in which a crafted recipient address can indirectly lead to command execution.