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GHSA-mqxr-gww5-9jhp
GHSA-mqxr-gww5-9jhp
PUBLISHED
CVSS 7.5 HIGH
Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 24, 2022
Exim through 4.93 has an out-of-bounds read in the SPA authenticator that could result in SPA/NTLM authentication bypass in auths/spa.c and auths/auth-spa.c.
Risk scores
CVSS 3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Timeline
- May 24, 2022 CVE Published
- Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch
- Apr 30, 2026 Security Advisory
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References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12783 advisory
- https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/57aa14b216432be381b6295c312065b2fd034f86 url
- https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4687 url
- https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commit/a04174dc2a84ae1008c23b6a7109e7fa3fb7b8b0 url
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4366-1 url
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2571 url
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00017.html url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/F6IQQ2SERFUD4WMRSX6XYDNK7Q4GPT7Y url
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M7Z5UG6ZIG32V7M4PP3BCC65C27EWK7G url
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/05/04/7 url