CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-28013
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• exim exim (>= 4.00 < 4.94.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness