Vulnerabilities / CVE-2020-28026

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CVE-2020-28026

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters, r ...

Published Modified
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Amazon. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

Description

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Neutralization of Line Delimiters, relevant in non-default configurations that enable Delivery Status Notification (DSN). Certain uses of ORCPT= can place a newline into a spool header file, and indirectly allow unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands as root.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1exim, exim-debuginfo, exim-greylist and 3 more4.92-1.33.amzn1
alpine 3.13exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.14exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.15exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.16exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.17exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.18exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.19exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.20exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.21exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.22exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.23exim4.94.2-r0
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1exim4.92-1.33.amzn1
amazon linux 1exim-debuginfo4.92-1.33.amzn1
amazon linux 1exim-greylist4.92-1.33.amzn1
amazon linux 1exim-mon4.92-1.33.amzn1
amazon linux 1exim-mysql4.92-1.33.amzn1
amazon linux 1exim-pgsql4.92-1.33.amzn1
alpine 3.13exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.14exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.15exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.16exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.17exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.18exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.19exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.20exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.21exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.22exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.23exim4.94.2-r0
alpine 3.24exim4.94.2-r0
alpine edgeexim4.94.2-r0
debian 10exim44.92-8+deb10u6
debian 11exim44.94.2-1
debian 12exim44.94.2-1
debian 13exim44.94.2-1
debian 14exim44.94.2-1
debian 9exim44.89-2+deb9u8
echoexim44.94.2-1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMexim44.82-3ubuntu2.4+esm3
ubuntu 16.04-ESMexim44.86.2-2ubuntu2.6+esm1
ubuntu 18.04exim44.90.1-1ubuntu1.8
ubuntu 18.04-ESMexim44.90.1-1ubuntu1.8
ubuntu 20.04exim44.93-13ubuntu1.5
ubuntu 20.04-ESMexim44.93-13ubuntu1.5
ubuntu 20.10exim44.94-7ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 21.04exim44.94-15ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 21.10exim44.94-15ubuntu1.2
ubuntu 22.04exim44.94-15ubuntu1.2

References

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