CVE-2010-4345
HIGH7.8⚠ KEVEPSS 6.5%exim4 - privilege escalation
Published: 12/14/2010Modified: 4/28/2026Added to CISA KEV: 3/25/2022
Description
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/exim4from 0, < 4.72-3
- Debian/exim4from 0, < 4.69-9+lenny3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |