Exploited. On CISA's list since 2022-03-25.
Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
CVE-2010-4345 · Exim Exim · Published 2010-12-14
How bad would it be?
7.8 out of 10
CVSS rates it high.
How likely is it to be used?
18%
Estimated chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored flaws (EPSS, 2026-10-29).
Is it already being used?
Yes
CISA has seen it exploited in real attacks. For US government agencies the fix is deadline passed 1659 days ago (2022-04-15).
What CISA says to do
Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Exim 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.
What the flaw is
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.
From the NVD.
Fixes and advisories
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CWE-77 · NVD record: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0. We have not selected a close learning match for this label.
CWE-264 · CISA KEV. We have not selected a close learning match for this label.
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