Exim Off-by-one RCE: Exploiting CVE-2018-6789 with Fully Mitigations Bypassing | DEVCORE

Meh, 2018-03-06 Link: https://devco.re/blog/2018/03/06/exim-off-by-one-RCE-exploiting-CVE-2018-6789-en/ Overview We reported an overflow vulnerability in the base64 decode function of Exim on 5 February, 2018, identified as CVE-2018-6789. This bug exists since the first commit of exim, hence ALL versions are affected. According to our research, it can be leveraged to gain Pre-auth Remote Code Execution and at least 400k servers are at risk. Patched version … Read more

Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim

May 12, 2026 Federico Kirschbaum, Andres Luksenberg Link: XBOW – Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) How XBOW Found an Unauthenticated RCE on Exim Dear reader, What follows is, before anything else, a story. One of those old, well-worn ones. A story of encounters and misencounters, of broken hearts and quiet betrayals, of loves once thought to be forever … Read more

21Nails: Multiple vulnerabilities in Exim | Qualys Security Advisory

2021/05/04 Link: qualys.com/2021/05/04/21nails/21nails.txt SummaryWe recently audited central parts of the Exim mail server(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exim) and discovered 21 vulnerabilities(from CVE-2020-28007 to CVE-2020-28026, plus CVE-2021-27216): 11 localvulnerabilities, and 10 remote vulnerabilities. Unless otherwise noted,all versions of Exim are affected since at least the beginning of itsGit history, in 2004.We have not tried to exploit all of these vulnerabilities, … Read more