High (7.8) in Exim Exim. In CISA KEV since 2022-03-25. EPSS 18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
CVSS 3.1
7.8 high
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 97% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)