Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting exim/exim package, versions [4.00,4.94.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.94% (57th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-EXIMEXIM-2364590
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed6 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 6 May 2021

CVE-2020-28014  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade exim/exim to version 4.94.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The -oP option is available to the exim user, and allows a denial of service because root-owned files can be overwritten.

References

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