CVE-2010-4345
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.8 High
- Published
- Dec 14, 2010
- Updated
- Oct 22, 2025
- Reserved
- Nov 30, 2010
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.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.8 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | CISA-ADP |
Weaknesses
- CWE-77 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
|
References
- 43128third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:059vendor-advisory
- [exim-dev] 20101209 Re: [Exim-maintainers] Remote root vulnerability in Eximmailing-list
- VU#758489third-party-advisory
- [exim-dev] 20101207 Remote root vulnerability in Eximmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662012
- ADV-2011-0364vdb-entry
- http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/unix/smtp/exim4_string_format
- RHSA-2011:0153vendor-advisory
- 45341vdb-entry
- 42930third-party-advisory
- 42576third-party-advisory
- 43243third-party-advisory
- 1024859vdb-entry
- [exim-dev] 20101210 Re: Remote root vulnerability in Eximmailing-list
- DSA-2154vendor-advisory
- 20101213 Exim security issue in historical releasemailing-list
- http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/11/exim_code_execution_peril/
- ADV-2011-0245vdb-entry
- ADV-2011-0135vdb-entry
- USN-1060-1vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-3204vdb-entry
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044
- DSA-2131vendor-advisory
- ADV-2010-3171vdb-entry
- http://www.cpanel.net/2010/12/critical-exim-security-update.html
- [oss-security] 20101210 Exim remote rootmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20210504 21Nails: Multiple vulnerabilities in Eximmailing-list
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2010-4345government-resource
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