CVE-2020-28014

MEDIUM

Exim 4.00-4.94.1 - Denial of Service via -oP Option Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The -oP option is available to the exim user, and allows a denial of service because root-owned files can be overwritten.

References (1)

Core 1

Core References

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28014-PIDFP.txt

Scores

CVSS v3 6.1

EPSS 0.0095

EPSS Percentile 56.7%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-269

Status published

Products (1)

exim/exim 4.00 - 4.94.2

Published May 06, 2021

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026