Vulnerabilities > CVE-2019-18862 - Unspecified vulnerability in GNU Mailutils 0.5/0.6

047910
CVSS 4.6 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
PARTIAL
Integrity impact
PARTIAL
Availability impact
PARTIAL
local
low complexity
gnu
exploit available

Summary

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

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Gnu
3

Exploit-Db

idEDB-ID:47703
last seen2019-11-21
modified2019-11-21
published2019-11-21
reporterExploit-DB
sourcehttps://www.exploit-db.com/download/47703
titleGNU Mailutils 3.7 - Privilege Escalation

Packetstorm

data sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/155425/gnumailutils37-escalate.txt
idPACKETSTORM:155425
last seen2019-11-21
published2019-11-21
reporterMike Gualtieri
sourcehttps://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155425/GNU-Mailutils-3.7-Privilege-Escalation.html
titleGNU Mailutils 3.7 Privilege Escalation