CVEvulnerability
CVE-2019-18862
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2019-11-11
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.
Affected configurations
• gnu mailutils (< 3.8)
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12 security.gentoo.org
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html packetstormsecurity.com
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12 security.gentoo.org