CVE-2010-4345

7.8

CVSS
High

PUBLISHED

Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate...

Exploited in the wild Low complexity No user interaction

Vendor: Exim
Product: Exim
Published: Dec 14, 2010
EPSS: —

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.

cisa metasploit

CVSS scores

CVSS v3.1 7.8 High

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

CVSS v2.0 6.9

AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Exploitation status

Exploited in the wild

Recorded 2022-03-25 00:00:00 UTC · Source

SSVC decision points

Exploitation: active
Automatable: No
Technical impact: total

References

Known exploited vulnerability sources

Catalogues that list this CVE as a known exploited vulnerability.

Source	Added
CISA	Mar 25, 2022

Scanner integrations

Scanner	Reference	Detected
Metasploit	https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/unix/smtp/exim4_string_format.rb	Apr 28, 2025

Potential proof of concepts

These PoCs are unverified and could contain malware. Use at your own risk.

exim4_string_format

metasploit · Created Unknown

Metasploit module for CVE-2010-4345

Vulnerability detail