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CVE-2010-4345

7.8, high Known exploited

Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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CVSS
7.8, high high CVSS v3.1
EPSS, next 30 days
18% higher than 97.1% of scored CVEs
Exploitation
Confirmed in the wild
Published
14 Dec 201015 years ago

Known exploited

CISA added this to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on 25 Mar 2022. US federal agencies had to remediate by 15 Apr 2022, a deadline that has passed.

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Description

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.

Details

Vendor
Exim and 3 more
Product
Exim
Weakness
CWE-77 (opens in a new tab)
Status
Analyzed
Updated
16 Jun 2026
Assigner
secalert@redhat.com

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

References 29

Patches and fixes 3

Advisories 17

9 more

Other references 9

1 more

The kind is read from NVD's tags where present and from the shape of the URL otherwise, so treat it as a hint.

Other Exim CVEs

Every Exim CVE we hold

Same vendor in what we hold, not a known link between the flaws.

  • CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Vulnerability KEV EPSS 42% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2019-10149 Exim Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) Improper Input Validation KEV EPSS 100% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Vulnerability KEV EPSS 82% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2010-4344 Exim Heap-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability KEV EPSS 72% 9.8, critical
  • CVE-2026-94056 Exim before 4.100.1, when Proxy-Protocol is used with an attacker-controlled proxy, allows attackers to read certain uninitialized data… EPSS 0.2% 7.5, high

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Assembled from the NVD 2.0 API, the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog and FIRST EPSS. Scores are as of our last collection on 17 Oct 2026, not the live upstream state.