High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 16, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-10140

Description

Postfix before 2.11.10, 3.0.x before 3.0.10, 3.1.x before 3.1.6, and 3.2.x before 3.2.2 might allow local users to gain privileges by leveraging undocumented functionality in Berkeley DB 2.x and later, related to reading settings from DB_CONFIG in the current directory.

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Affected products

Postfix/Postfixinferred2 versions
< 2.11.10, >= 3.0 < 3.0.10, >= 3.1 < 3.1.6, >= 3.2 < 3.2.2+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.11.10, >= 3.0 < 3.0.10, >= 3.1 < 3.1.6, >= 3.2 < 3.2.2
- (no CPE)range: <2.11.10, <3.0.10, <3.1.6, <3.2.2

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q3/285nvdExploitMailing ListThird Party Advisory
www.postfix.org/announcements/postfix-3.2.2.htmlnvdVendor Advisory
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0366nvdThird Party Advisory
www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2020.htmlnvd

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