Exim Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Exim 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.

Added to CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2022-03-25. Required action per CISA: Apply updates per vendor instructions. Due date: 2022-04-15.

This is an auto-synced KEV catalog record pending a full 0dayNews write-up — see CISA’s KEV catalog and the NVD record linked above for primary sources.