CVE-2020-12783 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2020-12783

Exim through 4.93 has an out-of-bounds read in the SPA...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

exim, fedora, debian linux, ubuntu linux
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 31, 32, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, 20.04

Timeline

Official Publish: May 11th, 2020
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.