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ALERT — New 21Nails Exim Bugs Expose Millions of Email Servers to Hacking

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read3
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Vulnerabilities mentioned

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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2019-10149
Unvalidated Email Recipient Enables Remote Command Execution in Exim MTA
9.8100%KEVPoC ×5
KEV
CVE-2020-28018
+20 related CVEs
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Use After Free in smtp_reset in certain situations that may be common for builds with OpenSSL
9.8
group max
57%

From the original article

2 min read at thehackernews.com

The maintainers of Exim have released patches to remediate as many as 21 security vulnerabilities in its software that could enable unauthenticated attackers to achieve complete remote code execution and gain root privileges. Collectively named '21Nails ,' the flaws include 11 vulnerabilities that require local access to the server and 10 other weaknesses that could be exploited remotely.

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