Vulnerability in Sendmail
CVE-1999-1309
Sendmail before 8.6.7 allows local users to gain root access via a large value in the debug (-d) command line option.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.2 (High). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (35.7th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 36th percentile — 35.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
References
- www.cert.org/advisories/CA-94.12.sendmail.vulnerabilities (US Government Resource, Patch, Third Party Advisory, third-party-advisory)
- www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0042.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0048.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)
- www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0078.html (mailing-list)
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/7155 (vdb-entry)
- www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0043.html (mailing-list)
- www.dataguard.no/bugtraq/1994_1/0040.html (Vendor Advisory, mailing-list)