CVE-2019-15846

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15846
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2019-15846.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2019-15846
Downstream
Related
Published
2019-09-06T11:15:11Z
Modified
2025-10-15T10:25:51.748253Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Exim before 4.92.2 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root via a trailing backslash.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/exim/exim

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/exim/exim
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
2600301ba6dbac5c9d640c87007a07ee6dcea1f4

Affected versions

Other

DEVEL_PDKIM_START
exim-4_50
exim-4_51
exim-4_52
exim-4_53
exim-4_54
exim-4_61
exim-4_62
exim-4_63
exim-4_64
exim-4_65
exim-4_66
exim-4_67
exim-4_68
exim-4_69
exim-4_70
exim-4_70_RC3
exim-4_70_RC4
exim-4_71
exim-4_72
exim-4_72_RC1
exim-4_72_RC2
exim-4_73
exim-4_73_RC0
exim-4_73_RC00
exim-4_73_RC1
exim-4_74
exim-4_74_RC1
exim-4_75
exim-4_75_RC1
exim-4_75_RC2
exim-4_75_RC3
exim-4_76
exim-4_76_RC1
exim-4_76_RC2
exim-4_77
exim-4_77_RC1
exim-4_77_RC2
exim-4_77_RC3
exim-4_77_RC4
exim-4_80
exim-4_80_RC1
exim-4_80_RC2
exim-4_80_RC3
exim-4_80_RC4
exim-4_80_RC5
exim-4_80_RC6
exim-4_80_RC7
exim-4_82
exim-4_82_1
exim-4_82_RC1
exim-4_82_RC2
exim-4_82_RC3
exim-4_82_RC4
exim-4_82_RC5
exim-4_83
exim-4_83_RC1
exim-4_83_RC2
exim-4_83_RC3
exim-4_84
exim-4_84_RC1
exim-4_84_RC2
exim-4_85
exim-4_85_RC1
exim-4_85_RC2
exim-4_85_RC3
exim-4_85_RC4
exim-4_86
exim-4_86_RC1
exim-4_86_RC2
exim-4_86_RC3
exim-4_86_RC4
exim-4_86_RC5
exim-4_87
exim-4_87_RC1
exim-4_87_RC2
exim-4_87_RC3
exim-4_87_RC4
exim-4_87_RC5
exim-4_87_RC6
exim-4_87_RC7
exim-4_88
exim-4_88_RC1
exim-4_88_RC2
exim-4_88_RC3
exim-4_88_RC4
exim-4_88_RC5
exim-4_88_RC6
exim-4_89_RC1
exim-4_89_RC3
exim-4_90
exim-4_90_RC1
exim-4_90_RC2
exim-4_90_RC3
exim-4_90_RC4
exim-4_91
exim-4_91_RC1
exim-4_91_RC2
exim-4_91_RC3
exim-4_91_RC4
list_safety_merge_proposal

exim-4.*

exim-4.90devstart
exim-4.92
exim-4.92-RC1
exim-4.92-RC2
exim-4.92-RC3
exim-4.92-RC4
exim-4.92-RC5
exim-4.92-RC6
exim-4.92-jgh
exim-4.92.1
exim-4.92.1-RC2

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "function": "string_interpret_escape",
            "file": "src/src/string.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/exim/exim/commit/2600301ba6dbac5c9d640c87007a07ee6dcea1f4",
        "digest": {
            "length": 984.0,
            "function_hash": "256980183646066541984069527665417741673"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2019-15846-6e37a886",
        "signature_type": "Function"
    },
    {
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/src/string.c"
        },
        "source": "https://github.com/exim/exim/commit/2600301ba6dbac5c9d640c87007a07ee6dcea1f4",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "34360093518404896471744733215184192610",
                "8719926595473108489439290494720702532",
                "296632350261770040420288428843821730810",
                "265836692107644544242406332720074567239",
                "94320246887392360165331925281492160580",
                "204743667807900283044696579217917538959",
                "259783621426062242108025744201689104232",
                "152000936690205865675864793129865771482",
                "226017580920755955615003370344980451181",
                "12739408565750634307987649623934564665"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "id": "CVE-2019-15846-e3b79d9f",
        "signature_type": "Line"
    }
]