CVE-2020-28015: Exim

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

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. Local users can alter the behavior of root processes because a recipient address can have a newline character.

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.