CVE-2019-18862 Affecting mailutils package, versions [,3.8)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
0.06% (30th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MAILUTILS-2374220
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed11 Nov 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-18862  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mailutils to version 3.8 or higher.

Overview

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

CVSS Scores

version 3.1