CVE-2020-28019

high

Description

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.

References

https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2021-threat-landscape-retrospective

https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28019-BDATA.txt

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-05-06

Updated: 2021-05-10

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High