CVE-2019-18862 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

Published: 2019-11-11

Score: 7.8 High

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

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affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:gnu:mailutils:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2019-8557	maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact Partial

Integrity Impact Partial

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00724.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12

History

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Subscriptions

Gnu Mailutils

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2019-11-11T15:49:12.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-05T02:02:39.596Z

Reserved: 2019-11-11T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-18862

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-11T16:15:12.023

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:33:44.213

Link: CVE-2019-18862

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-noinfo

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