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CVE-2010-4345

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Date: December 14, 2010

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.

Language: C

Severity Score

7.4

Related Resources (32)

Url: http://www.metasploit.com/modules/exploit/unix/smtp/exim4_string_format

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3204

Url: http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101210.164935.385e04d0.en.html

Url: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/11/exim_code_execution_peril/

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/515172/100/0/threaded

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43243

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2010-4345

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2010-4345

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42930

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/43128

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/3171

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2154

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0135

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/42576

Url: http://www.cpanel.net/2010/12/critical-exim-security-update.html

Url: http://lists.exim.org/lurker/message/20101209.172233.abcba158.en.html

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/45341

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4345

Url: http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1024859

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7

Url: http://www.exim.org/lurker/message/20101207.215955.bb32d4f2.en.html

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1060-1

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-12/msg00003.html

Url: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/12/10/1

Url: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/758489

Url: http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1044

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2131

Url: http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2011-0153.html

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662012

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0245

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0364

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2010-4345

Severity Score

7.4

Weakness Type (CWE)

Permissions, Privileges, and Access Control

CWE-264

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CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.4
Attack Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC):	HIGH
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	HIGH
Integrity (I):	HIGH
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	6.9
Access Vector (AV):	LOCAL
Access Complexity (AC):	MEDIUM
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	COMPLETE
Integrity (I):	COMPLETE
Availability (A):	COMPLETE
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CVE-2010-4345

Good to know:

Date: December 14, 2010

Language: C

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Weakness Type (CWE)

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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