CVE-2017-10140 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Postfix versions before 2.11.10, 3.0.10, 3.1.6, and 3.2.2. It stems from undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, allowing an attacker to read settings from a DB_CONFIG file in the current directory. With a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), successful exploitation could lead to full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.11.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.2.0, < 3.2.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:postfix:postfix:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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