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CVE-2020-28019 in the critical feed json

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Initialization that can lead to recursion-based stack consumption or other consequences.

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2020-20510

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
61.7%
EPSS 61.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 99.1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Improper Initialization that can lead to recursion-based stack consumption or other consequences. This occurs because use of certain getc functions is mishandled when a client uses BDAT instead of DATA.

Patch / fix

  • exim exim 4.94.2
  • exim4 Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 4.94.2-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28019

  • exim4 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.90.1-1ubuntu1.8
  • exim4 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 4.93-13ubuntu1.5

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28019

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • exim openSUSE Tumbleweed 4.94.2-4.2
  • exim Package Hub 15 SP2 4.94.2-bp152.6.4.1
  • libspf2 Package Hub 15 SP2 1.2.10-bp152.5.1
  • exim Package Hub 15 SP1 4.94.2-bp151.2.4.1
  • libspf2 Package Hub 15 SP1 1.2.10-bp151.4.1
  • exim openSUSE Leap 15.2 4.94.2-lp152.8.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10746-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0754-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0753-1openSUSE-SU-2021:0677-1

  • exim Alpine 3.24, Alpine 3.23, Alpine 3.22 +9 more 4.94.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2020-28019

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • exim Arch Linux 4.94.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-1911

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Exploit prediction

61.66% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 99.1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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