Risk Letters

Exploited vulnerability

CVE-2010-4345

TLP:CLEAR

Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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.

Facts

  • Vendor: Exim
  • Product: Exim
  • CVSS: 7.8
  • EPSS (probability of exploitation within 30 days): 18 %
  • On CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list since: 25 March 2022
  • First known exploitation: 25 March 2022
  • CISA's deadline for US federal agencies: 15 April 2022
  • Weakness: CWE-264
  • First seen by Risk Letters: 25 March 2022

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Data: NVD (public domain), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS, MITRE ATT&CK, AlienVault OTX. NVD