CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-27216

6.3 MEDIUM Published 2021-05-06 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-05-06
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. By leveraging a delete_pid_file race condition, a local user can delete arbitrary files as root. This involves the -oP and -oPX options.

Affected configurations

• exim exim (< 4.94.2)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

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

References