Exim 4.72 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging the ability of the exim user account to specify an alternate configuration file with a directive that contains arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2010-12-14T15:00:00.000Z
Updated: 2025-10-22T00:05:50.114Z
Reserved: 2010-11-30T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2010-4345
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2024-08-07T03:43:14.742Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Deferred
Published: 2010-12-14T16:00:04.257
Modified: 2025-10-22T01:15:39.820
Link: CVE-2010-4345
 Redhat
                        Redhat