CVE-2020-28021

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters

published May 6, 2021

CVSS
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EPSS
4%
Percentile
90.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client can insert newline characters into a spool file (which indirectly leads to remote code execution as root) via AUTH= in a MAIL FROM command.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.04139 · 90.8th percentile
Published
2021-05-06T04:16Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 06 MAY 04:16Z
    Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters
    cvelistv5