Vulnerability in Metamail Corporation
CVE-1999-1263
Metamail before 2.7-7.2 allows remote attackers to overwrite arbitrary files via an e-mail message containing a uuencoded attachment that specifies the full pathname for the file to be modified, which is processed by uuencode in Metamail scripts such as sun-audio-file.
EPSS: 0.010 (58.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Metamail_corporation Metamail
- N/a — versions n/a
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_XF)
- cve@mitre.org (mailing-list, x_refsource_BUGTRAQ)