Exim vulnerabilitiesRanked by how likely they are to be used.
Exim is made by University of Cambridge. We track 10 published vulnerabilities in it, across 27 versions. None of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. If you run Exim, keep it on a version the vendor still supports.
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None of Exim's published vulnerabilities is on the list of flaws known to be exploited today. We keep watching that list.
Which Exim flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 21%CVE-2004-0399High
Stack-based buffer overflow in Exim 3.35, and other versions before 4, when the sender_verify option is true, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code during sender...
- 12%CVE-2001-0690High
Format string vulnerability in exim (3.22-10 in Red Hat, 3.12 in Debian and 3.16 in Conectiva) in batched SMTP mode allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code via format strings in SMTP mail headers.
- 7.0%CVE-2004-0400High
Stack-based buffer overflow in Exim 4 before 4.33, when the headers_check_syntax option is enabled, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code during the header check.
- 6.4%CVE-2001-0889High
Exim 3.22 and earlier, in some configurations, does not properly verify the local part of an address when redirecting the address to a pipe, which could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell...
- 5.7%CVE-2003-0743High
Heap-based buffer overflow in smtp_in.c for Exim 3 (exim3) before 3.36 and Exim 4 (exim4) before 4.21 may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an invalid (1) HELO or (2) EHLO argument with a large...
- 2.6%CVE-2005-0021High
Multiple buffer overflows in Exim before 4.43 may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) an IPv6 address with more than 8 components, as demonstrated using the -be command line option, which triggers an...
- 2.3%CVE-2002-1381High
Format string vulnerability in daemon.c for Exim 4.x through 4.10, and 3.x through 3.36, allows exim administrative users to execute arbitrary code by modifying the pid_file_path value.
- 0.7%CVE-2005-0022Medium
Buffer overflow in the spa_base64_to_bits function in Exim before 4.43, as originally obtained from Samba code, and as called by the auth_spa_client function, may allow attackers to execute arbitrary code during SPA...
- 0.7%CVE-1999-0971High
Buffer overflow in Exim allows local users to gain root privileges via a long :include: option in a .forward file.
- 0.4%CVE-2002-0274Medium
Exim 3.34 and earlier may allow local users to gain privileges via a buffer overflow in long -C (configuration file) and other command line arguments.
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Stack-based buffer overflow in Exim 3.35, and other versions before 4, when the sender_verify option is true, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code during sender verification.
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