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CVE-2019-16928
CWE-787
Critical
103.2
RPSRPS range: 0–105; KEV-listed vulnerabilities can receive an exploitation amplifier.
Description
Exim 4.92 through 4.92.2 allows remote code execution, a different vulnerability than CVE-2019-15846. There is a heap-based buffer overflow in string_vformat in string.c involving a long EHLO command.
Source: NVD
Signals
- CVSS
- 9.8
- Critical · v3.1
- EPSS
- 41.63%
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (FIRST)
- CISA KEV
- In CISA KEV since Mar 2022
- Fix commit
- Fix commit known
- Sources: MoreFixes, FreshFixes
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Published
- 27 Sept 2019
- Last modified 7 Nov 2025
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Data as of 7 Oct 2026, 05:16 UK time