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21Nails vulnerabilities impact 60% of the internet's email servers

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Vulnerabilities mentioned

All
CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2018-6789
Pre-auth Buffer Overflow RCE in Exim SMTP Listener
9.882%KEVRansomwarePoC ×4
KEV
CVE-2019-10149
Unvalidated Email Recipient Enables Remote Command Execution in Exim MTA
9.8100%KEVPoC ×5
KEV
CVE-2019-15846
Exim before 4.92.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via a trailing backslash
9.836%
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%

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The maintainers of the Exim email server software have released updates today to patch a collection of 21 vulnerabilities that can allow threat actors to take over servers using both local and remote attack vectors. Known as 21Nails , the vulnerabilities were discovered by security firm Qualys.

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