CVE-2020-28013

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.

CVSS v3 7.8 HIGH
CVSS v2.0 7.2 HIGH

7.8^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 1.8 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector LOCAL

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.2^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

Vector : AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 10.0

Access Vector LOCAL

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact COMPLETE

Integrity Impact COMPLETE

Availability Impact COMPLETE

References

Link	Resource
https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txt	Vendor Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

10 May 2021, 18:43

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : 7.2 v3 : 7.8
References	~~(MISC) https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txt -~~	(MISC) https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txt - Vendor Advisory
CWE		CWE-787
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim::::::::

06 May 2021, 13:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2021-05-06 13:15

Updated : 2023-12-10 13:55

NVD link : CVE-2020-28013

Mitre link : CVE-2020-28013

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2020-28013

JSON object : View

Products Affected

exim

exim

CWE

CWE-787

Out-of-bounds Write

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