CVE-2020-12783

HIGH

Exim <4.93 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

Exim through 4.93 has an out-of-bounds read in the SPA authenticator that could result in SPA/NTLM authentication bypass in auths/spa.c and auths/auth-spa.c.

References (9)

Core 9
Core References
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2571
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4687
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00017.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4366-1/
Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7

Scores

CVSS v3 7.5
EPSS 0.0319
EPSS Percentile 87.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (11)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 20.04
debian/debian_linux 8.0
debian/debian_linux 9.0
debian/debian_linux 10.0
exim/exim < 4.93
fedoraproject/fedora 31
... and 1 more
Published May 11, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026