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Tuesday, July 14, 2026
Data as of 20:11 UTC

Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Added to KEV
2022-03-25
Federal due date
2022-04-15
Vendor
Exim
Product
Exim
EPSS
96.8th percentile (score 0.178, as of 2026-07-13)
NVD CVSS v3.1
Ransomware use
Unknown
Upstream
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4345

CISA short description

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.

Required action

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EPSS percentile is the FIRST.org exploit-probability ranking as of the date noted above; it moves daily. CVSS reflects NVD's analysis at time of publication.