EDB-39702

functional

Exim - 'perl_startup' Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)

view exploit source exploit_dbverifiedtype localauthor Metasploitpublished 2016-04-15catalog exploit_db

exploited CVEs (1)

Known CVEs related to this entry.

ID	severity	EPSS	exploitable	published
CVE-2016-1531US	high7.0	6.24% (94th)	Exploit	2016-04-07
Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.

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