CVEvulnerability
CVE-2020-28024
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-05-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Description
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Buffer Underwrite that may result in unauthenticated remote attackers executing arbitrary commands, because smtp_ungetc was only intended to push back characters, but can actually push back non-character error codes such as EOF.
Affected configurations
• exim exim (>= 4.00 < 4.94.2)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness
References
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28024-UNGET.txt Third Party Advisory
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28024-UNGET.txt Third Party Advisory