CVE-2019-18862 Affecting mailutils package, versions <1:3.5-4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
0.06% (23rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-MAILUTILS-483076
- published 11 Nov 2019
- disclosed 11 Nov 2019
Introduced: 11 Nov 2019
CVE-2019-18862 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 mailutils to version 1:3.5-4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mailutils package and not the mailutils package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.
maidag in GNU Mailutils before 3.8 is installed setuid and allows local privilege escalation in the url mode.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-18862
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-12
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
- https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/tree/NEWS
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-18862
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/47703