CVE-2016-1531 (GCVE-0-2016-1531)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-04-07 23:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 23:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Exim before 4.86.2, when installed setuid root, allows local users to gain privileges via the perl_startup argument.
Severity
7.0 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
10 references
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|---|---|
| http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3517 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39535/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035512 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/136124/Exim-… | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39702/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
| http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2933-1 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU |
| http://www.exim.org/static/doc/CVE-2016-1531.txt | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.rapid7.com/db/modules/exploit/unix/loc… | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/39549/ | exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB |
Date Public
2016-03-03 00:00
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"suse_vex": {
"aggregate_severity": "moderate",
"current_release_date": "2025-03-16T04:17:05Z",
"cve": "CVE-2016-1531",
"id": "CVE-2016-1531",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:08:16Z",
"product_status:recommended": "3",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2016-1531",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2016-1531.json",
"version": "7"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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