Pierluigi Paganini
September 29, 2023
Experts warn of a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42115, in all versions of Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software. A critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-42115 (CVSS score 9.8), affects all versions of Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software. A remote, unauthenticated attacker, can exploit the vulnerability to gain remote code execution (RCE) on Internet-exposed […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 04, 2021
The maintainers of the Exim email server software addressed a collection of 21 issues, dubbed 21Nails, that can allow attackers to fully compromise mail servers. The maintainers of the Exim email server software have released security updates to address a collection of 21 vulnerabilities, dubbed 21Nails, that can be exploited by attackers to take over […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 03, 2020
Several flaws in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) have been exploited by Russia-linked hackers, hundreds of thousands of servers are still unpatched. Russia-linked threat actors have exploited several vulnerabilities in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) in their campaigns. Last week, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) warned that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 28, 2020
The U.S. NSA warns that Russia-linked APT group known as Sandworm Team have been exploiting a critical flaw in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). The U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is warning that Russia-linked APT group tracked Sandworm Team has been exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149) in the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software since […]
Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2019
Exim maintainers released an urgent security update to address a critical security flaw that could allow a remote attacker to potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers released an urgent security update, Exim version 4.92.3, to address a critical security vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to crash or potentially execute malicious code on […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 16, 2019
On Friday, security experts at Microsoft warned of a new Linux worm, spreading via Exim email servers, that already compromised some Azure installs. Bad actors continue to target cloud services in the attempt of abusing them for several malicious purposes, like storing malware or implementing command and control servers. Microsoft Azure is not immune, recently […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2019
Hackers are targeting millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions, threat actors leverage the CVE-2019-10149 flaw. Millions of mail servers running vulnerable Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) versions are under attack, threat actors are exploiting the CVE-2019-10149 flaw to take over them. A critical vulnerability affects versions 4.87 to 4.91 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 09, 2019
Millions of Exim mail servers are exposed to attacks due to a critical vulnerability that makes it possible for unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands. A critical vulnerability affects versions 4.87 to 4.91 of the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA) software. The flaw could be exploited by unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 27, 2017
The Exim Internet mail message transfer agent warned of flaws through the public bug tracker, sys admins have to apply the workaround asap. Exim is a message transfer agent (MTA) developed at the University of Cambridge for use on Unix systems connected to the Internet, it is the most popular MTA on the Internet. The Internet mail message […]
