fkie_cve-2010-4345
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2010-12-14 16:00
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| exim | exim | * | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.1 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.2 | |
| opensuse | opensuse | 11.3 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 5.0 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 6.06 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 8.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 9.10 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 10.10 |
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