CVE-2016-1531
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-04-07 23:00
Modified
2024-08-05 23:02
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.
References
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