CVE-2020-28013
highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.004 · 33 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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.
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affected products (21)
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references (10)
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- https://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20210503.163324.f7021753.en.htmlPatchcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-28013cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/162475/Gentoo-Linux-Security-Advisory-202105-01.htmlcnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Exim-multiple-vulnerabilities-35237cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.1512cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2021.1562cnnvd
- https://www.cybersecurity-help.cz/vdb/SB2021050420cnnvd
- https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28013-PFPSN.txtcnnvd
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