CVE-2020-28021: Exim

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters. An authenticated remote SMTP client can insert newline characters into a spool file (which indirectly leads to remote code execution as root) via AUTH= in a MAIL FROM command.

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.