March 25, 2022 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2010-4345 — Exim Exim
Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2022-03-25- Federal due date
2022-04-15- Vendor
- Exim
- Product
- Exim
- EPSS
- 97.0th percentile (score 0.181, as of
2026-09-16) - 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
Apply updates per vendor instructions.