High severity · published Nov 11, 2019
CVE-2019-18862
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode
7.8
CVSS
1.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.2% · higher than 68% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MA
Mailutils · Gnu
before 3.8 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-18862
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-18862
packetstormsecurity.com
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
Vendor Advisory
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS
security.gentoo.org
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12
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