Detections
Analytics
CVE-2021-27216
medium
Description
Exim 4 before 4.94.2 has Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. By leveraging a delete_pid_file race condition, a local user can delete arbitrary files as root. This involves the -oP and -oPX options.
References
https://www.tenable.com/cyber-exposure/2021-threat-landscape-retrospective
https://www.exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2020-qualys/CVE-2020-28007-LFDIR.txt