Vulnerabilities > CVE-2020-28012 - Unspecified vulnerability in Exim

CVSS 7.8 - HIGH

Attack vector

LOCAL

Attack complexity

LOW

Privileges required

LOW

Confidentiality impact

HIGH

Integrity impact

HIGH

Availability impact

HIGH

local

low complexity

exim

NVD

Published: 2021-05-06

Updated: 2022-07-12

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

Part	Description	Count
Application	Exim Exim Exim 4.00 Exim Exim 4.01 Exim Exim 4.02 Exim Exim 4.03 Exim Exim 4.04 Exim Exim 4.05 Exim Exim 4.10 Exim Exim 4.11 Exim Exim 4.12 Exim Exim 4.14 Exim Exim 4.20 Exim Exim 4.21 Exim Exim 4.22 Exim Exim 4.23 Exim Exim 4.24 Exim Exim 4.30 Exim Exim 4.31 Exim Exim 4.32 Exim Exim 4.33 Exim Exim 4.34 Exim Exim 4.40 Exim Exim 4.41 Exim Exim 4.42 Exim Exim 4.43 Exim Exim 4.44 Exim Exim 4.50 Exim Exim 4.51 Exim Exim 4.52 Exim Exim 4.53 Exim Exim 4.54 Exim Exim 4.60 Exim Exim 4.61 Exim Exim 4.62 Exim Exim 4.63 Exim Exim 4.64 Exim Exim 4.65 Exim Exim 4.66 Exim Exim 4.67 Exim Exim 4.68 Exim Exim 4.69 Exim Exim 4.70 Exim Exim 4.71 Exim Exim 4.72 Exim Exim 4.73 Exim Exim 4.74 Exim Exim 4.75 Exim Exim 4.76 Exim Exim 4.77 Exim Exim 4.80 Exim Exim 4.80.1 Exim Exim 4.82 Exim Exim 4.82.1 Exim Exim 4.84.2 Exim Exim 4.85 Exim Exim 4.85.1 Exim Exim 4.85.2 Exim Exim 4.86 Exim Exim 4.86.1 Exim Exim 4.86.2 Exim Exim 4.87 Exim Exim 4.87.1 Exim Exim 4.88 Exim Exim 4.89 Exim Exim 4.89.1 Exim Exim 4.90 Exim Exim 4.90.0.22 Exim Exim 4.90.0.27 Exim Exim 4.90.1 Exim Exim 4.91 Exim Exim 4.92 Exim Exim 4.92.1 Exim Exim 4.92.2 Exim Exim 4.93 Exim Exim 4.93.0.4 Exim Exim 4.93.0.4-3.1 Exim Exim 4.94 Exim Exim 4.94.1	122

References

https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28012-CLOSE.txt