CVE-2019-18862

published 2019-11-11

CVE-2019-18862: maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.

Priority P3 42 high 7.8 CVSS 3.1

AV L AC L PR L UI N S U C H I H A H

EXPLOIT

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

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	mailutils	< mailutils 1:3.8-1 (bookworm)	mailutils 1:3.8-1 (bookworm)
gnu	mailutils	< 3.8	3.8
gnu	mailutils	>= 0 < 1:3.8-1	1:3.8-1
gnu	mailutils	>= 0 < 1:3.8-1	1:3.8-1
gnu	mailutils	>= 0 < 1:3.8-1	1:3.8-1
gnu	mailutils	>= 0 < 1:3.8-1	1:3.8-1

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.8 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvd v2.0 4.6 MEDIUM AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

osv 7.8 HIGH

vendor_debian 7.8 LOW

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