CVE-2021-27216

Summary

CVECVE-2021-27216
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-05-06 13:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-06-28 14:11:00 UTC
DescriptionExim 4 before 4.94.2 has Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. By leveraging a delete_pid_file race condition, a local user can delete arbitrary files as root. This involves the -oP and -oPX options.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-362

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Exim Exim All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28007-LFDIR.txt MISC www.exim.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 179723 Debian Security Update for exim4 (CVE-2021-27216)
  • 198350 Ubuntu Security Notification for Exim4 Vulnerabilities (USN-4934-1) (21Nails)
  • 354032 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for exim : ALAS-2022-1622
  • 50110 Exim Mail Server Multiple Vulnerabilities (21Nails)(Generic)
  • 501544 Alpine Linux Security Update for exim
  • 504726 Alpine Linux Security Update for exim
  • 710114 Gentoo Linux Exim Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 202105-01)
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