{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28014 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2020-28014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exim Exim, published on 6 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-28014 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-28014 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Exim Exim, published on 6 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-28014 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Exim Exim. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28014/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28014/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-28014","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28014/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-28014","record":{"aliases":["CLEANSTART-2025-KA91333","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-28014","GHSA-8rq7-g7j7-m3rf","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-28014"],"analysis":{"component_type":"server_software","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation","denial_of_service"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Exim mail server","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"The exim user can overwrite root-owned files via the -oP option, leading to privilege escalation and denial of service.","user_interaction":"not_required","vuln_class":"privilege_escalation"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"exim","vendor":"exim"}],"cvss":{"score":6.1,"severity":"medium","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"description":"Exim 4 before 4.94.2 allows Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The -oP option is available to the exim user, and allows a denial of service because root-owned files can be overwritten.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Privilege escalation in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28014","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":"exim:exim","products":["exim:exim"],"type":"privilege_escalation","year":"2020"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":1,"next":{"headline":"Command injection in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28015"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28013"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2021-05-06","related":[{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Use after free in Exim","id":"CVE-2026-45185","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2026-05-12"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Exim AUTH Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability","id":"CVE-2023-42115","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-05-03"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28017","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Use after free in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28018","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Integer overflow in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28020","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28022","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-06"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2020-28024","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2021-05-06"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"The exim user can overwrite root-owned files via the -oP option, leading to privilege escalation and denial of service.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-28014/"}