CVE-2020-28015 is a high-severity vulnerability affecting Exim mail transfer agent versions prior to 4.94.2, stemming from improper neutralization of line delimiters. This flaw allows local users to manipulate root process behavior by injecting newline characters into recipient addresses. With a CVSS score of 7.8, it presents a significant risk of high impact to confidentiality, integrity, and availability, though it requires local access and low privileges. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and lacking public exploit intelligence in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, it has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity community.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 4.00, < 4.94.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.