Access Restriction Bypass Affecting exim/exim package, versions [,4.86.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.06% (27th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIMEXIM-2364569
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed7 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-1531  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade exim/exim to version 4.86.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.

CVSS Scores

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