CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-2024

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2010-06-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-06-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

transports/appendfile.c in Exim before 4.72, when MBX locking is enabled, allows local users to change permissions of arbitrary files or create arbitrary files, and cause a denial of service or possibly gain privileges, via a symlink attack on a lockfile in /tmp/.

Affected configurations

• exim exim (<= 4.71) • exim exim 4.10 • exim exim 4.20 • exim exim 4.21 • exim exim 4.22 • exim exim 4.23 • exim exim 4.24 • exim exim 4.30 • exim exim 4.31 • exim exim 4.32 • exim exim 4.33 • exim exim 4.34 • exim exim 4.40 • exim exim 4.41 • exim exim 4.42 • exim exim 4.43 • exim exim 4.44 • exim exim 4.50 • exim exim 4.51 • exim exim 4.52 • exim exim 4.53 • exim exim 4.54 • exim exim 4.60 • exim exim 4.61 • exim exim 4.62 • exim exim 4.63 • exim exim 4.64 • exim exim 4.65 • exim exim 4.66 • exim exim 4.67 • exim exim 4.68 • exim exim 4.69 • exim exim 4.70

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References