CVE-2010-4345

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"NVD-CWE-noinfo"}]}, {"type": "Secondary", "source": "134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0", "description": [{"lang": "en", "value": "CWE-77"}]}], "descriptions": [{"lang": "en", "value": "Exim 4.72 and earlier 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, as demonstrated by the spool_directory directive."}, {"lang": "es", "value": "Exim v4.72 y anteriores permiten a usuarios locales ganar privilegios potenciando la habilidad especificar un archivo de cuenta de usuario con una configuraci\u00f3n alternativa mediante una directiva que contenga comandos de su elecci\u00f3n, como se demostr\u00f3 con la directiva spool_directory."}], "lastModified": "2025-10-22T01:15:39.820", "cisaActionDue": "2022-04-15", "cisaExploitAdd": "2022-03-25", "configurations": [{"nodes": [{"negate": false, "cpeMatch": [{"criteria": "cpe:2.3:a:exim:exim:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", 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