CVE-2020-28008: Exim

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. Because Exim operates as root in the spool directory (owned by a non-root user), an attacker can write to a /var/spool/exim4/input spool header file, in which a crafted recipient address can indirectly lead to command execution.

Affected products

• Exim Exim: from 4.00, before 4.94.2 (fixed in 4.94.2)

Published 2021-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.