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CRITICAL
CVE-2019-15846
Apache Exim Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Description

Exim before 4.92.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via a trailing backslash.

INFO

Published Date :

Sept. 6, 2019, 11:15 a.m.

Last Modified :

Nov. 7, 2023, 3:05 a.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

5.9

Exploitability Score :

3.9
Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2019-15846 has a 8 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2019-15846 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Debian debian_linux
1 Exim exim
: Total Affected Vendor : 2 | Products : 2
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2019-15846.

URL Resource
http://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txt Mitigation Vendor Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00024.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/4
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/5
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/8
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/08/1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/09/1
https://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txt
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00004.html Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FT3GY7V7SR2RHKNZNQCGXFWUSILVSZNU/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDF37AUNETIOXY6ZLQAUBGBVUTMMV242/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SBNHDAF74RI6VK2JVSEIE3VYNL7JJDYM/
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/13 Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-06
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-1/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-2/
https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4517
https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/672565
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/1 Mailing List Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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developer3000S/PoC-in-GitHub

None

Updated: 8 months, 2 weeks ago
33 stars 3 fork 3 watcher
Born at : March 12, 2021, 12:22 p.m. This repo has been linked 1063 different CVEs too.
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alphaSeclab/sec-daily-2019

2019年天融信阿尔法实验室在微信公众号发布的所有安全资讯汇总

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
33 stars 5 fork 5 watcher
Born at : Jan. 11, 2021, 2:13 a.m. This repo has been linked 240 different CVEs too.
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hectorgie/PoC-in-GitHub

None

Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago
17 stars 10 fork 10 watcher
Born at : Jan. 2, 2021, 10:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 1050 different CVEs too.
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0xT11/CVE-POC

None

Updated: 3 months ago
82 stars 32 fork 32 watcher
Born at : Oct. 2, 2020, 2:49 p.m. This repo has been linked 1111 different CVEs too.
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cloudflare/exim-cve-2019-10149-data

Data Collection Related to Exim CVE-2019-10149

Updated: 1 year, 11 months ago
3 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : June 3, 2020, 2:27 a.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.
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synacktiv/Exim-CVE-2019-15846

PoC materials to exploit CVE-2019-15846

Python

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
30 stars 9 fork 9 watcher
Born at : Oct. 9, 2019, 3:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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d3k4z/nmap-cve2019-15846

None

Lua

Updated: 2 years, 6 months ago
3 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : Oct. 7, 2019, 8:40 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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iGotRootSRC/Dorkers

Dorks for Google, Shodan and BinaryEdge

Updated: 3 months, 1 week ago
142 stars 30 fork 30 watcher
Born at : May 25, 2019, 5:54 p.m. This repo has been linked 3 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2019-15846 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2019-15846 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 07, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/NDF37AUNETIOXY6ZLQAUBGBVUTMMV242/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FT3GY7V7SR2RHKNZNQCGXFWUSILVSZNU/ [No types assigned]
    Added Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/SBNHDAF74RI6VK2JVSEIE3VYNL7JJDYM/ [No types assigned]
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NDF37AUNETIOXY6ZLQAUBGBVUTMMV242/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FT3GY7V7SR2RHKNZNQCGXFWUSILVSZNU/
    Removed Reference MITRE https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SBNHDAF74RI6VK2JVSEIE3VYNL7JJDYM/
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 24, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-119 NVD-CWE-noinfo
  • CPE Deprecation Remap by [email protected]

    Aug. 18, 2020

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 26, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txt [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 16, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-2/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 14, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/SBNHDAF74RI6VK2JVSEIE3VYNL7JJDYM/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 10, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00024.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 10, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/09/1 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/08/1 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 08, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/NDF37AUNETIOXY6ZLQAUBGBVUTMMV242/ [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FT3GY7V7SR2RHKNZNQCGXFWUSILVSZNU/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/2 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/07/1 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/8 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 07, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201909-06 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/4 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/5 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/6 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/672565 [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://usn.ubuntu.com/4124-1/ [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/2 [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4517 [No Types Assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
    Added CVSS V3 AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txt No Types Assigned http://exim.org/static/doc/security/CVE-2019-15846.txt Mitigation, Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00004.html No Types Assigned https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00004.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/13 No Types Assigned https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/13 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/1 No Types Assigned https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/09/06/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE CWE-119
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* versions up to (excluding) 4.92.2
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 06, 2019

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00004.html [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/13 [No Types Assigned]
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2019-15846 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2019-15846 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

24.96 }} 6.75%

score

0.96755

percentile

CVSS30 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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