CVEvulnerability

CVE-2001-0889

7.5 HIGH Published 2001-12-19 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2001-12-19
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Exim 3.22 and earlier, in some configurations, does not properly verify the local part of an address when redirecting the address to a pipe, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters.

Affected configurations

• university of cambridge exim (<= 3.22) • redhat linux

References