CVE record
CVE-2010-4345
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.
CVE evidence
Known exploitation
Listed in CISA KEV
Absence from the fetched catalog does not establish that exploitation has not occurred.
Severity
high
CVSS 7.8 · CVSS_V3
Affected packages
0
Supported package records returned by OSV. Vendor and product names are not used to infer matches.
CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Catalog record
- Vendor / project
- Exim
- Product
- Exim
- Date added
- Mar 25, 2022
- CISA federal remediation due date
- Apr 15, 2022
- Required action
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
- Known ransomware campaign use
- Unknown
- CWE
- CWE-264
OSV package mapping
Affected open-source packages
OSV did not return a package mapping in the five supported ecosystems. RequestGuard does not infer package names from the CISA vendor or product fields.