CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-5899
7.0 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-03-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-362
Description
Directory traversal vulnerability in the setuid root helper binary in S-nail (later S-mailx) before 14.8.16 allows local users to write to arbitrary files and consequently gain root privileges via a .. (dot dot) in the randstr argument.
Affected configurations
• s-nail project s-nail (<= 14.8.5)
Related
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/27/7 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/07/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96138 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mail-archive.com/s-nail-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg00551.html www.mail-archive.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/27/7 Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/07/4 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96138 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.mail-archive.com/s-nail-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/msg00551.html www.mail-archive.com