A flaw was found in Exim versions 4.87 to 4.91 (inclusive). Improper validation of recipient address in deliver_message() function in /src/deliver.c may lead to remote command execution.
CVE-2019-10149
“—” beside the score: it is equal to NVD's CVSS score.
Score elevated to 9.8 because this CVE is listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2022-01-10), indicating real-world exploitation has been confirmed by US federal agencies. NVD baseline CVSS 9.8 retained for reference. Confidence: HIGH.
Also known asEUVD-2019-2187 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD
- Actively exploited in the wild (CISA-KEV) — the reason this is sooner than the SSVC decision on this page at low or medium mission impact
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 9.8
- EG Score
- 9.8CRITICALhigh confidence
- EG Risk
- 84EG Risk 84/100
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.
How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)Severity98% × 45%Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.8 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.Exploitation100% × 40%Fixed at 100% for a CISA KEV listing: EchelonGraph's rule.Automatability0% × 15%CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact. - EPSS PROB
- >99.9%
- EPSS %ILE
- 99th
- KEV
- ⚠ Exploited
What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)
The EG score (9.8): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.8 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.
- EG Severity
- 9.8 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
- EG Likelihood
- >99.9% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
- Confirmed exploitation
- CISA KEV and EG-KEV Tier 1 (exploited in the wild)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
- EG Priority
- SSVC Attend at medium mission impactTrack at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.CISA BOD 26-04: 3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low, Attend at medium and Act at high mission impact.
A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines at low, sooner than that at medium and as soon as possible at high mission impact.
Exploitation active (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table
BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)3 days & forensic triage if the affected system is publicly exposed; 14 days if it is not.
The score's inputs: In CISA KEV yes (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it
CISA required action“Apply updates per vendor instructions.”
Quoted verbatim from CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. CISA directs it at US federal civilian executive branch agencies under Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04, which replaced BOD 22-01 on 10 June 2026; it is not EchelonGraph's advice. CISA's notes: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-10149
Published
June 5, 2019
Last Modified
November 6, 2025
Advisory Details (9)
Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026oss-security - Re: Statistics for distros lists updated for 2019Q2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/25/6oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/06/1oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/05/4oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/05/3oss-security - Re: CVE-2019-10149: Exim 4.87 to 4.91: possible remote exploit
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/06/05/2Full Disclosure: The Return of the WIZard: RCE in Exim (CVE-2019-10149)
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/16Packet Storm
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154198/Exim-4.91-Local-Privilege-Escalation.htmlPatch Availability(1)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fix (by version range) / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | eximon4 (4.91-6ubuntu1.1) @ cosmic | 2026-10-30 | ubuntu |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(5 across 5 ecosystems)
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| exim4 | — |
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Debian:12(1)
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| exim4 | — |
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Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| exim4 | — |
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Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
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| exim4 | — |
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Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fix by version range | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| exim4 | 4.89-2 ... 4.89-2+deb9u3~bpo8+1 (6 versions) |
| — |
Weakness Classification(2)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
All Vendor Advisories
(1)
Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 16× in last 7d / 149× in last 30d)
Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.
Showing the most recent 100 of 1,544 refreshes on record for this CVE.
A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 1,444 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.
- 2026-11-02 08:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-02 08:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-11-01 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-31 05:50 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-31 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-30 04:33 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-30 04:33 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-30 04:33 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-29 03:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-29 03:17 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-29 03:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-28 02:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-28 02:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-27 00:45 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-27 00:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 23:26 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-25 23:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-25 19:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-25 16:27 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS >99.9% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-24 22:11 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-24 22:11 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-24 22:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-23 20:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-23 20:54 UTCVendor advisory
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- 2026-10-23 20:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-22 19:37 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-22 19:37 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-22 19:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-21 18:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-21 18:22 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-21 18:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-20 17:06 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-20 17:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-19 15:49 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-19 15:49 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-19 15:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-18 09:58 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 13:14 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-17 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-17 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-16 11:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-16 11:56 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-16 11:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-15 10:40 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-15 10:40 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-15 10:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-14 16:28 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS >99.9% · 99th percentile
- 2026-10-14 09:23 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-14 09:22 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-13 08:06 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-13 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 20:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-12 06:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-12 02:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 22:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 18:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 18:56 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 15:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-11 11:05 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-11 11:05 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-11 07:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-10 23:15 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-10 23:15 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-10 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-10 03:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 23:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 19:43 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 19:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-09 15:47 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
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- 2026-10-09 11:51 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 07:54 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 07:54 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 03:59 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-09 03:58 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-09 00:03 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 20:08 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 20:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 16:12 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 12:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 08:18 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 04:23 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 04:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-08 00:28 UTCVendor advisory
- 2026-10-08 00:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-5r7w-xvrp-rg22 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.8
- 2026-10-07 20:33 UTCVendor advisory
Publicly available exploits
(14 references, 10 shown)Public exploit code is referenced for this CVE (1 Metasploit module, 3 Exploit-DB entries, 10 GitHub PoCs). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly.
- Exploit-DBEDB-47307✓ verifiedPublished Aug 26, 2019
Exim 4.87 / 4.91 - Local Privilege Escalation (Metasploit)
Open source ↗ - Metasploitexploit/linux/local/exim4_deliver_message_priv_esc✓ verifiedPublished Aug 23, 2019
Exim 4.87 - 4.91 Local Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗ - Exploit-DBEDB-46996✓ verifiedPublished Jun 17, 2019
Exim 4.87 - 4.91 - Local Privilege Escalation
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCStick-U235/CVE-2019-10149-ExploitPublished Jul 29, 2021
Exploit for CVE-2019-10149
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCcloudflare/exim-cve-2019-10149-dataPublished Jun 3, 2020
Data Collection Related to Exim CVE-2019-10149
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCDiefunction/CVE-2019-10149Published Oct 27, 2019
CVE-2019-10149 : A flaw was found in Exim versions 4.87 to 4.91 (inclusive). Improper validation of recipient address in deliver_message() function in /src/deliver.c may lead to remote command execution.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCdarsigovrustam/CVE-2019-10149Published Oct 21, 2019
Instructions for installing a vulnerable version of Exim and its expluatation
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCChris-dev1/exim.expPublished Sep 5, 2019
CVE-2019-10149
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCBrets0150/StickyEximPublished Jul 25, 2019
Exim Honey Pot for CVE-2019-10149 exploit attempts.
Open source ↗ - GitHub PoCAzizMea/CVE-2019-10149-privilege-escalationPublished Jun 27, 2019
CVE-2019-10149 privilege escalation
Open source ↗
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