Raft of Exim Security Holes Allow Linux Mail Server Takeovers

A veritable cornucopia of security vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server have been uncovered, some of which could be chained together for unauthenticated remote code execution RCE, gaining root privileges and worm-style lateral movement, according to researchers. The Qualys Research Team has...

ALERT — New 21Nails Exim Bugs Expose Millions of Email Servers to Hacking

The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named '21Nails,' the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that...

Exim < 4.94.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (21Nails)

According to its banner, the version of Exim running on the remote host is prior to 4.94.2. It is, therefore, potentially affected by multiple vulnerabilities that can lead to remote code execution. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include'deprecatednasllevel.inc';...

GLSA-202105-01 : Exim: Multiple vulnerabilities

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-202105-01 Exim: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Exim. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details. Impact : A remote attacker, by connecting to the SMTP listener daemon,...

Exim < 4.94.2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (21Nails)

Exim is prone to multiple vulnerabilities dubbed SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only CPE = "cpe:/a:exim:exim"; if description...

21Nails: Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Exim Mail Server

Update May 7, 2021: Exim has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Exim versions prior to 4.94.2. See the CISA announcement. Original Post: The Qualys Research Team has discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in the Exim mail server, some of the which can be chain...

USN-4934-1: Exim vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Exim contained multiple security issues. An attacker could use these issues to cause a denial of service, execute arbitrary code remotely, obtain sensitive information, or escalate local privileges...

CVE-2020-28008

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. Because Exim operates as root in the spool directory owned by a non-root user, an attacker can write to a /var/spool/exim4/input spool header file, in which a crafted recipient address can indirectly lead to command execution...

CVE-2020-28021

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...

CVE-2020-28009

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow because getstdinput allows unbounded reads that are accompanied by unbounded increases in a certain size variable. NOTE: exploitation may be impractical because of the execution time needed to overflow multiple days...

CVE-2020-28025

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Out-of-bounds Read because pdkimfinishbodyhash does not validate the relationship between sig-bodyhash.len and b-bh.len; thus, a crafted DKIM-Signature header might lead to a leak of sensitive information from process memory...

CVE-2020-28014

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...

CVE-2020-28013

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.'" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy...

CVE-2020-28018

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Use After Free in smtpreset in certain situations that may be common for builds with OpenSSL...

CVE-2020-28020

Exim 4 before 4.92 allows Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow, in which an unauthenticated remote attacker can execute arbitrary code by leveraging the mishandling of continuation lines during header-length restriction...

CVE-2020-28024

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Buffer Underwrite that may result in unauthenticated remote attackers executing arbitrary commands, because smtpungetc was only intended to push back characters, but can actually push back non-character error codes such as EOF...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28012

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Exposure of File Descriptor to Unintended Control Sphere because rdainterpret uses a privileged pipe that lacks a close-on-exec flag...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28010

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Out-of-bounds Write because the main function, while setuid root, copies the current working directory pathname into a buffer that is too small on some common platforms...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28021

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...

UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28022

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Restriction of Write Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer. This occurs when processing name=value pairs within MAIL FROM and RCPT TO commands...