CVE-2020-28013: Exim

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

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Heap-based Buffer Overflow because it mishandles "-F '.('" on the command line, and thus may allow privilege escalation from any user to root. This occurs because of the interpretation of negative sizes in strncpy.

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.